“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10
I read a pearl of wisdom recently from a morning devotion. It said, “To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world”. That pearl got me to thinking that if I could be a blessing to one person, how many more people could a group of my friends bless. God put each of us on this planet to do a certain work that only each of us can do. God didn’t plan for you to do that work alone. You need people to work with you.
You know the feeling you get when you do too much work on your own. You get exhausted and burned out and discouraged. At the Burnt Offerings event at my church a week ago my daughters provided me with an abundance of help. Working alone, you might even think about giving up! Why? Because you’re trying to do your work alone, and God never meant for it to be that way.
The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:9, “Two people are better than one, because they get more done by working together”. When you work as a team, you get so much more done. Plus, having good teammates work alongside you is a whole lot more fun and less tiring! The Our Redeemer Lutheran Outreach Team partnered with a Thrivent Team and Trinity HOPE and had a lot of volunteers working together for the Burnt Offering event. And we had a lot of fun and good fellowship; winner, winner chicken dinner!.
Remember as you walk through life that you’re not supposed to do everything on your own. You need other people to walk with you, but you also need people to work alongside you. As you share the burden of your work with fellow Christians, you’ll find that you actually accomplish more for the glory of God.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
May God be with you,
Jay