This month I think my inteire team has had this dilemma at one point or other.
How much is a soul worth?
It couldn’t have been a more different month. Up until now our weeks had semi set hours and a to do list for the day.
Now on the first day, after an offer of an open house. We are faced with plans going out the window, and lives revolving around a family’s schedule. Not our Hosts.
What was to be a day of going out and talking about Jesus, turned into sitting pool side and being a friend.
That’s when I wonder:
Is this truly the best way to spend my day?
Is this what God wants from me?
Is a family, or better said 3 teenagers worth the money to get 8 young women across the world?
In that moment I need to remind myself the story of the shepherd going after the one lost sheep.
And we have to slay our own dragons of wanting to do something 24/7. Put my desire to reach dozens in a month, into reaching one person.
Some might look at my life and think what I thought:
Is it really worth it?
Spending all weekend in a pool. When I am doing on week days the same I’d desire to do on off days.
The question of what am I really doing rises.
Shouldn’t me and my team be doing more?
But then the day comes where I look back at my week and see a new light coming to life.
A small and tender light, that needs attention, and love. For it to soon turn into a lantern that will spread the light into darkness.
And in that moment I know, that no matter how simple and small my work might seem. It’s where He wants me and it is 100% worth every cent and minute.
Is their a soul you have thought isn’t worth the time and energy?
