I've been working second shift, 3-11, for 2 weeks now. I don't hate it, but I also don't like it either. On the positive side, it frees me up to do little projects around the house while the girls are at school. Today's project was clean the kitchen. One of my friends challenged me to do at least one thing special for Tina each day and this definitely fit that criteria. We live in an older home that I'm convinced produces dust from its pores. We've pretty much given up on the floor. The floor is covered with ugly brown carpet squares that we can't ever get clean. I decided the best plan of attack was begin at the top and work my way down. Kind of like the old CEO of Conseco...wow, that doesn't fit at all. Anyway, you get the gist. I turn on the jams and start working. I began by dusting everything, which doesn't make sense. How can the process to remove something use the same word to put it there? (dusting...) Ok, enough silly jokes, get to the point. We have one of those Dyson vacuum cleaners, those things really suck...no pun intended, they really do. I'm going around with the wand attachment to clean up all the dust, but there's one problem, it wasn't sucking. First thought, "Oh man, we've only had this thing a couple years. It should last an eternity for what I paid for it." I turned it off and on several times, not sucking. I shook the hose, not sucking. I can hear it making sucking sounds, but...not sucking!! I'm getting ticked. My job is fixing stuff so I got into fixit mode. I keep a complete tool pouch at the house for things just like this, you never know when they'll pop up. I make my way through the house to get my tools and realize...I still have the vacuum hose in my hand. It was never connected. That's a pretty important step if your goal is to vacuum using the wand attachment.
Isn't it funny how God works? Sometimes I wonder if God makes or allows or simply watches me screw up. But the cool thing is He teaches me through these gaffs. While standing there laughing at myself I looked out the front door and noticed the sign in front of the church building across the street, it read "Get Involved". I laughed even harder. I could've been done if I had gotten the hose attachment involved sooner. Just imagine all the great things I could've accomplished if I had simply attached the stinking hose...
Getting attached to the church is alot like a hose assembly getting attached to the vacuum. You're not going to accomplish anything for God if you're not fully connected. We've all heard the excuses. I don't have time. All they want is my money (whole different topic). Weekends are for leisure and family. I don't have to be in a church setting to worship God or to get connected. That last statement is half true because worship happens all the time. It's hard though to be involved in or a part of something when you're not there or simply not interested. God's word is clear about getting involved with a church family. The only time you are encouraged to do something on your own is when you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. But even then you are surrounded by believers who have taken you in and helped find answers to your questions.
Church involvement is scriptural.
Hebrews 10:24,25 "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." Did you catch that? Don't neglect meeting with one another or encouraging one another as the day draws near...when Jesus returns.
Ephesians 4:11-12, “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.” Again, it is hard to build up the body of Christ if we are alone at home or not connected.
Romans 12: 4,5 "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” No single and individual member of a body is effective at home alone. It is useless of itself but when assembled together as a whole, it is able to serve, pray, build up, edify, and exhort other members of the body of Christ.
Last weekend I took a challenge along with 6,000 Middle Schoolers (BTW, I felt your prayers). For 50 days ask God this question. "Lord, what do you want to do thru me?" The answers you receive will shock and amaze you. Don't forget, 1 Timothy 1:7 "for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."
Get connected already and experience God. Want to know how? Let's talk. Back to the kitchen...
peace,
totalheel
Isn't it funny how God works? Sometimes I wonder if God makes or allows or simply watches me screw up. But the cool thing is He teaches me through these gaffs. While standing there laughing at myself I looked out the front door and noticed the sign in front of the church building across the street, it read "Get Involved". I laughed even harder. I could've been done if I had gotten the hose attachment involved sooner. Just imagine all the great things I could've accomplished if I had simply attached the stinking hose...
Getting attached to the church is alot like a hose assembly getting attached to the vacuum. You're not going to accomplish anything for God if you're not fully connected. We've all heard the excuses. I don't have time. All they want is my money (whole different topic). Weekends are for leisure and family. I don't have to be in a church setting to worship God or to get connected. That last statement is half true because worship happens all the time. It's hard though to be involved in or a part of something when you're not there or simply not interested. God's word is clear about getting involved with a church family. The only time you are encouraged to do something on your own is when you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior. But even then you are surrounded by believers who have taken you in and helped find answers to your questions.
Church involvement is scriptural.
Hebrews 10:24,25 "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." Did you catch that? Don't neglect meeting with one another or encouraging one another as the day draws near...when Jesus returns.
Ephesians 4:11-12, “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up.” Again, it is hard to build up the body of Christ if we are alone at home or not connected.
Romans 12: 4,5 "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” No single and individual member of a body is effective at home alone. It is useless of itself but when assembled together as a whole, it is able to serve, pray, build up, edify, and exhort other members of the body of Christ.
Last weekend I took a challenge along with 6,000 Middle Schoolers (BTW, I felt your prayers). For 50 days ask God this question. "Lord, what do you want to do thru me?" The answers you receive will shock and amaze you. Don't forget, 1 Timothy 1:7 "for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control."
Get connected already and experience God. Want to know how? Let's talk. Back to the kitchen...
peace,
totalheel
