11/15/08
Today my steps took me to the church to spend some time doing some extra cleaning. It was time to step into the nursery with determination at ridding every nook and cranny of crumbs, dirt and anything else that might have found its way in there. It’s not that we don’t vacuum the nursery every week but we usually don’t have the vacuum which has all the paraphernalia that allows one to do base boards with us. This job would require more than merely dragging a vacuum around or changing heads to reach those hard to get places it would require moving all the furniture and toys out of their normal positions. Thankfully I was not alone, hubby to the rescue, although he was busy doing other jobs a quick ‘yoo-hoo, I need your help’, was enough to bring him into the inner sanctum of kid-dom aka the nursery to lend his strong back and helping hand. No wonder Yeshua sent the disciples out by twos especially in dealing with Abba’s kids there’s usually a mess that need cleaning up which takes more than one person. Sin, doubt, fear and all sorts of other attitudes and darker acts usual hide behind something else. I’ve found after being in the ministry for over 30 years that it does indeed take cooperation a concerted effort of more than one person to deal with such issues. I’ve also found that besides someone to help out with the work part of the ministry the company is more than welcome. I’ve seen too many lone ranger type of ministers who become so isolated from their flocks day to day lives that they become ineffective in helping them out in any way other than to throw sermon bomb into their lives and then walk away till the next Sunday. I’ve also seen many wonderful men and women of God who try to do it all themselves and end up not merely burning out as some say but actually breaking down and many never fully recover. Doctors are said to practice medicine, lawyers to practice law but Yeshua was called to do the works of Him (Abba His Father) who sent Him (Jn 9:4) and we are called to follow after Yeshua’s example, hence to work the works that He did. It is even said that we would do greater works than Yeshua did (Jn 14:12). Whew, it is work to follow the example of Yeshua and it is really great that He knew that we would need someone to work alongside us to expedite the work.
When we were finished with the nursery, I stood back and thought, ‘okay, little dudes and dudettes, crumb free from wall to wall, ready for action.’ Will crumbs and dirt find their way into the nursery again? Yep, but that’s okay we’re ready for them, we’re not just a team, we’re a family. We care enough to work together to help out even when the jobs seem tedious like talking someone out of an irrational fear, or bearing long and hard without someone who seems to continue to fall into the same sinful actions. Our sleeves are rolled up, our hearts open and we are ready to work.
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