“Doing What You Do”
Imagine that you are standing on the banks of the Jordan
River, when you see a large man wearing a coat of camel hair wade into to
water. “Repent!” He says in a loud obnoxious tone. “Repent! Repent, for the
Kingdom of God is at hand”. The more he talks, the louder and more
animated he becomes. You stand in awe of not only how he looks, but with what
passion he is shouting to you and to anyone that will listen. You can’t
help but stare, even though you know that it’s rude. You watch his
mannerisms, you hear his words, and you are captivated by His message. You
physically can’t take your eyes off him. Whether you believed in what
John said, or whether you didn’t, he was impossible to ignore! In the
eyes of God…Mission Accomplished! John was just fulfilling what he was called
to do “preparing the way of the Lord, making His paths straight” (Luke
3.4). There are a lot of things that John is not; he wasn’t a
fisherman, or a tentmaker, or a tax collector. We don’t even know if he
had any type of formal education to prepare him for his job. All we know
is that John used what he knew how to do to accomplish God’s Will. In the
end, that is the same thing that God wants out of us. Just think of how
many people came to know Jesus because of John. I would suppose that you
would not even be able to put a number on it. If we just simply do what
we know how to, and do it for the glory of God, there is no telling how many we
can reach as well.
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