Going to be warmish today again, and that, I imagine, accounts for the heavy traffic on the street this morning early. As I was leaving the driveway two ladies swept by and said their usual cheerful ‘good morning’. They don’t appear till school is over because one of them is a teacher. Then a solitary biker, followed by another walker, moving briskly. Then, as I was ending my morning stroll, in the distance two more appeared. There was a slight, cool breeze. Maybe that accounts for this early activity.
And a news item this morning about an Israeli lady who bought a new mattress for her mother. They threw out the old one, well used, and worn. Then, after the trash had been picked up, the mother remembered that she had her savings stashed there. One million dollars in US and other cash. Now there is a frantic search underway on various garbage dumps where the mattress might have been hauled to. One can empathize with her sick dismay.
It does reminds me that whatever we do is always under the eye of God. As is our life. A group of Christians were in Mexico helping build a school. As they were painting the outside in the back, one remarked, ‘Well, nobody is ever going to see what kind of painting we do here in the back”. And he started to sort of slap paint on carelessly till Melissa, one of the group, remarked, “God will see what we do”. So they did the best they could.
That reminded me of the artist who crafted the Statue of Liberty in France. People who have seen it report that every hair is meticulously in place on the head of the statue even though, when he crafted the work, nobody would ever see it up there over 150 feet in the air. Today, of course millions see it by means of aircraft, long range photography, etc. daily.
That is what St. Peter had In mind as well. Listen: “8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies — in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4,8-ll.
Often our work is “behind the building", and we start to think nobody cares what we do. Yet I expect my computer to do what I ask of it, which means somebody somewhere did the job assigned carefully and well. I strike one key and wipe this page empty, then strike two others, and it comes back. Amazing, isn’t it?
And your life is like that also. Now, back to that mattress. The Lord says this, “Good will comes to him who is generous and gives freely. Who conducts his affairs with justice.” Prov. 112,5. Remember, the way you live your life matters.
GPD 6/11/09
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