One Service Fits All

"Stop asking for God to bless what you are doing. Find out what God is doing, because it is already blessed."

Bono

I remember being on a trip with friends and we were working really hard and food was put in front of us. We all immediately began scarfing. A trigger went off in my head. Hey guys we forgot to pray. One of them spoke up. He said, "I find that when I am working for God he will have already blessed me and my food"

It made me feel better at the time but overall it sent me a message I haven't heard before.

God blesses those who are seeking (insert all of what seeking means) him.

I feel that we fall in traps sometimes in our service. We want to do something that is true to us or that fits our style or our skills perfect. We wait and pray and wait and find excuses not to get our service off the ground.

Here is an example. I would love to go abroad and find a way to share the life and love of Jesus to third world countries through team sports. Instead of solely focused on that goal and praying and praying and waiting. And then eventually doing nothing. I will find something now that I might not necessarily want to do but I know God is blessing and let him steer me from there. For example New Orleans is my ice breaker. Sure gutting houses in New Orleans is not sharing basketball with AIDS inflicted children but God is already blessing MercyResponse. I feel like New Orleans is preparing me for something closer to my vision. And as a result of my first trip and soon my second God has shown me more blessings than I could imagine a service like this could. I do enjoy being handyman but I suck at it when it is my own home. But when God puts me on a team with other great Jacks than all of a sudden I do better work. Surely not from my own ability.

This is why our God is so cool.

It isn't a matter of volunteering for something you are good at (that sure would limit some of us). It is how good you are at volunteering that matters.

You can't volunteer for the wrong outreach. Its impossible.

Christianity isn't a Right, Wrong religion. - - - - - - It is a Yes No.
Service isn't a Good Fit, Bad Fit for a person. - - - Its one service fits all.

Find a service that God is already blessing and plug in. When he wants you to move to another service or start one he will make it happen.

I do still pray for the day when I find that trip to give hope to the hopeless needing my skillset, whatever that is.