Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
What's in Your Hand? Theme of the Week: How Good Feels Thursday, September 23, 2004
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Men of IntegritySeptember/October 2004What's in Your Hand?Theme of the Week: How Good FeelsThursday, September 2375
Key Bible Verse: God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts … so that God's generosity can flow through you (1 Peter 4:10). Bonus Reading:Romans 12:6–8
The Bible says, "God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well" (Romans 12:6). Paul emphasized [in today's Bonus Reading] that we're to actually use these gifts and abilities God has given us for the benefit of others. Some people say, "I don't know what to do," or "I don't really have any special talent to give." Moses said pretty much the same thing when God spoke to him at the burning bush. "I'm a nobody."
How did God answer? "Moses, what is in your hand?" For Moses, it was a staff. It wasn't a crown, scepter, or sword. It was a simple stick. And it became one of the greatest supernatural weapons in human history.
So what do you already have in your possession? Speaking ability? Artistic ability? Money? Friendships? All of us have something we can use to accomplish our part in God's work here on earth as we serve one another.
In God's coming kingdom, we'll all have the thrill of reigning with God by using our divine combination of talent and labor, with restored bodies and minds. Meanwhile, we have the opportunity to practice. If this life is really the dress rehearsal for the rest of eternity, let's be totally prepared for opening night!
—John Bolin in Life Unlimited
My Response: I'll take inventory this week of my resources for doing good.
Thought to Apply: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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