Trust God and Get to Work!

Good morning on this new Monday. Yup, no question, this is the first Monday I've had all week. Fortunately, I'm allowed to say dumb things on a Monday. I have in the past thought that I had the first part of that title well committed in my mind. How do I show that I trust God though? That is where employing the second part comes. This may not always be as obvious as it sounds. We may be called to wait upon the Lord in one area of life while getting to work in another. We may get those areas confused and wonder why no progress seems possible for all our effort. Discovering God's will for our lives is a journey, and we haven't all arrived at the destination yet.

Money is the world's game right now. Even those nations who claim to be communist use money. Have too much and the person must worry over losing it. Have too little and the person cannot get what he or she needs. If for a moment the person says, "I have just enough," circumstances will rise up to shatter that delusion. Too much of our days are spent earning it, getting it, grabbing it, or suffering a lack of it. With that in mind, is it then any wonder that with the enmity of the world on us as Christ's followers some of us might suffer in this area?

If you said 'no', I'm glad that you have not suffered. I'll just slink on back to my cave of the judged and read Job alone by candlelight. Loaded reference there! God himself presented Job as a righteous man. Yet, Job lost everything but his life. His wife told him to curse God and die; his children were murdered by the evil one; and a few friends dropped by to really put the screws of guilt to the suffering man. "Confess your sin and have peace (and a return to prosperity)," they told him again and again. We would like it, we think, if it worked that way. Follow a religious path of human goodness and prosperity is ours. Poverty is the well-deserved abode of the sinner. We would like to think that, maybe even have tried to believe it from time to time. That way we get credit for our wealth and those going without have only themselves to blame. Er,hmm... did I mention Job?

Getting to work in faith is good, but the works of God in Jesus Christ are better for us. There is grace for the poor and the rich, for the sinner and the saint, for those overworked and those unemployed. God has brought each of us to His appointed place. The trial of the day, severe though it may be, will pass as God leads us on to His holy mountain.

Have a wonderful Monday in Christ Jesus!
Bucky