I’m writing today in a place of sheer exhaustion. I have officially had Covid–positive test since last Thursday. However, my symptoms began last Monday and I am almost officially through the worst, but today I am worn out. Perhaps it was the meeting with a scorpion at 2:30 am in my bathroom. Maybe it’s the exhaustion from this Covid, or some combination, but I am tired!
I also got this month’s challenge confused with September’s challenge. Forgive me for being a little not myself, but this is the real “crazy” deal this week. So we are technically doing Chapter 7 instead of Chapter 6. In September, I’ll reverse back to Chapter 6 and then we will be straightened out.
I’m just going to assume that someone out there needs us to meet their needs this month and next month, we will do the reflecting we were supposed to do. It will be okay. I promise.
The challenge we are focusing on asks us to meet the need of someone else. I have been pondering how to do this with my inability to leave the house. I have a couple of possibilities floating around and thankfully since my fever has continued to dissipate I will soon be at the end of my quarantine time.
It’s very important for us to look at what God’s word says to us about helping to meet the needs of others. Here are some encouraging verses that I hope will help us to rise to the exact tasks the Lord has in mind for us.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. Galatians 5:13
Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act. Proverbs 3:27
A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. Proverbs 11:25
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. James 2:14-17
It is very clear from these verses that we have a mandate to help others. We have all been given gifts and talents and have the ability to help others. These verses don’t allow for an “if” we should help, but rather they lead us to ask what is my task?
If you have not had the opportunity to give a helping hand to someone else, pray for wisdom and direction and the Lord will lead you to your task.
Do it with joy in your heart and feel His love move through you onto someone else. Then when you are finished celebrate with a little bit of praise and worship.
In Him,
