For whoever has will be given
more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they
have will be taken from them.
Matthew 25:29 (NIV)
Have you ever been in
the midst of an intensely personal moment, where a sermon speaks solely to you
(everybody else in the sanctuary may have felt the same way, but I’m the only
one writing)? This is not a first for to me. When God has a Word for you, he
will make a way for you to hear it. Sunday’s message challenged each hearer to
do the best with what we’re given, for we will be called to account, like the
servants in the parable of the bags of gold.
It’s
time for me to connect the dots.
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| Julian Jackson, Galaxy 2003, painted stones on boulder |
Challenge
from the sermon…Even
those without jobs have been blessed with time. What are you doing with it?
My BFF and I were recently discussing how writing has become my job, in the
meantime. It is what I do when I don’t want to get out of bed, don’t want to
move, intend to feel sorry for myself, but cannot. Writing has become what I
do; what I am, like
the tree that exists to be a tree, I write.
Message
from the sermon…when
you are aligned
with God, you are clear that despite it all, your sense is “yet I will praise
You.” My life is different than the life I lived not so many years ago, but
there is and always has been abundance. I just wasn’t paying sufficient attention. I knew this in April 2011, but it wasn’t yet
time to connect my dots.
Here’s
the thing about grace, it moves quietly. If you’re not paying
attention, you miss it all together. “I almost forgot …” That’s
Grace. “Why didn’t I see that before….” That’s Grace. “Really,
I couldn’t, are you sure….” That’s Grace. “Whew, just when I needed
it most…” That’s Grace. “Thank you for the compliment, I didn’t realize anyone
was paying attention….” Grace. Unexpected Grace, like you’d appreciate Grace as
much if you knew it was just around the corner. Which it always is,
though we never seem to remember. Unexpected Grace. Evidence of
abundance unlimited…
Call
to action from the sermon…God wants to
promote you. But do you know how to serve? Have you been faithful? It’s
time to connect the dots. Here’s the thing about the dots…maybe your dots seem
out of sequence, or, violating the natural order of dots that need connecting,
have no numbers. If they are your dots (if it is your time, your mission, your
ministry, your opportunity) only you can see the sequence. Why? Because God
created just those dots for you to connect.
Time to get busy. I will be called to
account for what I have received. And if I haven’t done everything I was
supposed to do with all I’ve been given, I will not be where I belong to
receive the blessing He set out for me, and that won’t be a good thing. I think
I may have found my dots. I’ve got to get connecting. Norman Hutchins sings God’s
got a blessing with your name on it. Well, it’s time to get mine, and share it
with the world.
Connecting my dots. Inspiration and
confirmation from my Sunday sermon. My message from the Universe, an intensely
personal moment, at the precise time I was prepared to hear it. Just another
reminder that God is good.
