Minding your own business

(it's about what we do with what we can control)

Minding your own business

I was honored last week to attend a prayer meeting with a group of YMCA leaders from across the country.  We sang, we prayed, we shared joys and prayer requests.  An especially good word came from one of those in attendance.  He shared that for years he would attend large Y meetings and lament all the things that the Y movement at large wasn't doing.  "If only this or if only that" were his favorite phrases. Then God convicted him of his own shortcomings and those of the local Y he led.  In response he began to do God's work in earnest and to lift his own community in new and profound ways.

“You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat…So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.”  Romans 14:10-12

In the end we will be responsible for our own actions and how we used the gifts and opportunities God gave us.  What others do is of secondary importance. Rather than criticize, perhaps we ought to dig deeper and create maximum impact in our sphere of influence. Perhaps our enthusiasm will catch on with others and begin to create the momentum needed for change on a larger scale.   Our own obedience to God’s call may be just what it takes to move others as well.

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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Volume 7, Number 16