Where O Where…

Have you ever lost track of time…its amazing thing to lose a week? One day it is Saturday and like that its Saturday again and you ask yourself, “What happened”. This is what happened to me this week, I didn’t have class because of Memorial Day and my routine changed. Because of the routine changing I lost track of ‘every day normal stuff’…like watering my flowers, reading, studying, praying and blogging. I’m still baffled by the idea I haven’t posted in over a week and in the blog world that is an eternity. This has put a great thought in my head…what if we go through life so busy doing little things…good things…not important things…and then we die. What if we just do enough busy things to keep you busy so you forget about making a difference? Which puts another thought into my head…are we to make a difference?

So two questions are posed “are we to busy to make a difference” and “are we meant to make a difference”? To answer the first question we need to tackle the second question. Are we here to make a difference? As a Christian I am to make a difference. I think there can be little doubt from the teachings of Jesus, we are meant to make a difference…”Go therefore and make disciples of all the nation….he goes further…but you get the idea. Make someone a disciple of Christ is a ‘life changing’ event, it make a huge difference in somebody’s life. So if we are in the world making disciples for Christ…would the world we a different place…of course it would.

So the last question left to be answered is “are we too busy to make a difference”? From my point of view I have to say yes. I am amazed at how busy we have become. We run around doing stuff, but have very little to show for it. Most of us can name a list of stuff we did and it looks ‘good’…but did it further the kingdom of Christ. Did we help some grow, did we build into someone else’s life. I worry about this, because I look around and see division, division that is growing on a huge scale. Everywhere I turn I see the ‘you are either with me or against me attitude’. The lines are being draw everywhere around us and I fear we are losing our opportunity to make a difference.

I am challenging you to make a difference in someone else’s life…take the time to share Christ love with someone you know. Don’t think about being rewarded, just do it because Christ is in you. Work to be a ‘uniter’ and a not a ‘divider’…But most of all slow down…remove the ‘busy’ from your life and make a difference.

-ps