Have you been able to do what you are supposed to be doing? What do you actually even do? Two questions I get asked more often than I thought I would. Yes, I think and hope we are doing what we are supposed to be doing, I don’t have the ABC on how we do it. I guess with time I’ve learned that people need tangibles in life. Somewhere in life, we learn that that’s what will dictate our success or lack of it. We want to have set programs with measurable results in order to believe what we do matters and is being effective. I was reading the word a few days ago and I got this verses “Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.” Habakkuk? ?3:17-19?
So what if what we are doing has no tangible results? I promise I low key wrestle with that for a little bit, but then I got hit with the fact that we can’t measure love! Think about it, we really can’t! I know, crazy am I right?!? We can say I love you to the moon and back but let’s be honest we can’t really measure it, can we? So what in the world am I doing and have been doing? Well, I have been seeking God and loving others from an overflow of His love. Sometimes love looks like painting a building (praise because you can see results haha) but sometimes it means feeding a hungry human. Did it matter? I’m not 100% sure, but that’s how I feel lead to love that day. Other times is about praying for someone. Can I see immediate results? Not always, yet, I know it matters. Sometimes it means buying someone a cold coffee because you know how much they love it. I guess I am learning to love people where they are no matter how simple it might look.
I guess the more I think about it the more I realize that is being consistent with the little things. The things he sees and are clearly from him. Like I wrote a few weeks back, not so much about the big but man don’t miss love in the little. So go and love the heck out of God and the world. They most likely will forget many things, but if you love them with God’s love trust me when I say that is something they simply won’t forget.
