February 06, 2012
A Voice in the Wilderness
I have a friend who is in enrolled in a business class and one of the
requirements is learning to do a blog. “We're
[supposed] to narrow it down to a
directed group and have something that we are passionate about…I don't really consider
myself qualified to give advice…on any particular subject.” It’s
interesting that most of us feel unqualified and yet we have the Spirit of the
living God within us who gives us our credentials. John the Baptist was simply
a voice in the wilderness and yet he prepared the way and made straight paths
for the Lord.
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Gail;
-----John the Baptist is your consummate example of a messenger bearing a narrow message directed towards a particular group. He lived his life directed towards carrying that message, and whatever were his resources of information, the Holy Spirit was there directing the meaning of it. What he was came alive in his message, because he was how he lived, and he lived the sense of his message.
-----It can be a bit surprising to us when others see authoritative possibilities in what we do naturally. What we do naturally certainly seems mundane to us. Much of it comes by habit; we do it just because we have done it, and we have done it because we had learned it works. And if we always carried forward the “why’s” we learned when learning the “how’s” of doing things, we will have always been wise in developing better techniques and ways of doing whatever we do. If indeed that has become the fabric of which your mundane skills are made, other people are definitely going to look at you as one of their resources.
-----People thusly seeing you as a resource can be a very fulfilling experience. It is a joyful experience when people look this way at the core of your being. As important as work skills are, they serve a temporary situation. And although work skills vary greatly in many ways, they are all made of a very similar fabric woven at the core of your being. An even greater curiosity shines there. And if anyone lives in such a manner that his substance weaves a patterned fabric of what he means instead of covering basket of the social face, the light of that greater curiosity will shine forth. For when you take Christ‘s words to the core of your being, there where the Holy Spirit also weaves, the simple message of eternity from every mundane thing you do continually whispers to whoever is nearby.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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