I recently read about someone who built sandcastles with his kids at the beach only to watch the tide come in and wash away all his hard work. I thought he should have taken some photos of his sandcastles. At any rate, they were quickly gone. The lesson he considered afterwards was this: what are we doing daily that is eternal? Only those things done for Christ will last.
This morning, my pastor preached about when Jesus taught 5,000 men (and probably another 5,000 women and children in the crowd) and there was no lunch. After asking His disciples what were they going to do about it, Andrew found a boy with 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread. Jesus multiplied the boy’s food until there were 12 baskets of leftovers. This lesson: whatever you have, no matter how small, Jesus can multiply it if you give it to Him.
I think how I seem to spin my wheels on a daily basis. Get up, go to work – do reports, do meetings, do other stuff, go to the after work activities, go home, drop into bed. Do it again the next day.
So what is done on a daily basis that is eternal? What will last? When I stand before Jesus at the end of my life, what will He have to look at? Will my offerings be like the sandcastles washed away at the next tide?
Or—what have I offered to Him to multiply? I do hope He can look at some things and stretch them out to His praise and glory.
So, perhaps, as the work week starts again tomorrow, it’s a good time to lay it all out at His feet. All my attitudes, abilities, activities (is there a pattern here?) to be handed to Jesus first thing so He can expand them all for His purposes. May these good works be lasting.
“And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all” I Cor 12:6,7.
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