Sally Edwards is a highly esteemed third grade
teacher at Jacksboro Elementary in Texas
A whopping 67% of her 3rd grade students answered:
“Dove season, deer season, duck season, and turkey season.” 1
I don’t know what season of life you are in, but I
do know this. God has something for you
to do. He did for Jeremiah. He told Jeremiah he had a work for him to do. His assignment? Stand in the rubble of Jerusalem
That was it. And oddly enough, Jeremiah did it. As the people of Judah were leaving Jerusalem
in single file as captives, Jeremiah stood weeping and reminding them that God
would bring them back with these words: “Yet
this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love
we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every
morning; great is your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:21-23).
God had something for Jeremiah to do. And he has something for you to do too. In the New Testament book of Ephesians the
apostle Paul writes to the church, “For we are God’s workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God created in advance for us to do” (Eph.
2:10).
In God’s employment contract for us today, he does
not ask us to be successful by the world’s standards but rather to be faithful
to him to do good things. God is not so
much concerned about your ability as he is your availability.
Just like Jeremiah, God is calling you to play a
role in his Grand Story. It may be that
this is your time to change the direction of your family. Turning from a focus
on you alone to a concerning yourself with the things of God. It may be that God is calling you to reach
out to a neighbor. Perhaps he is laying
on your heart a ministry where there is a need you can’t even see at the
moment.
Whatever season of life you are in God is calling
you to make a difference. And he is
desiring to equip you to make that difference. Right now. Today.
Are you available for his purposes?
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