Feed Them part 4
The best way to show God that you love Him, is to love people. And the best way to show people you love them, is to feed them. In the natural AND the Spiritual. Seeing a need and meeting that need may seem like a small thing, but its really the biggest thing you can do. I've heard it said like this, "You can't change the world, but by loving someone you can change THEIR world." I think we get frustrated sometimes because no matter how hard we try we feel like we aren't doing enough. I think anybody with love in their heart feels that way. Because when you have love in your heart you want to make things perfect. Especially for the people you care about the most. But a long time ago I asked my pastor a similar question and he gave me this answer, "If you're worried about it, you don't need to worry about it." Because if you actually care whether or not you're doing enough... that means you ARE doing enough. Because caring is half the battle. Yesterday I was focusing on the truth that I can't do it all. There are things I can do, and there are things I can't. And going right along with that is the truth that if you care enough to try... that means everything. Because some people don't even care. They see a need--or are totally oblivious to it--and keep walking on by. Like the religious folk in the story of the good Samaritan. They literally crossed to the other side of the road rather than helping someone who clearly needed help. They put their blinders on and pretended it wasn't happening. "Not my problem." But when we begin to understand how connected we really are, and we begin to see that the walls we hide behind really aren't protecting us at all, that's when we can start to truly live the life of love that is the gift of God. We can stop getting hung up on our hang ups and we can give God room to operate in us, and through us, and as us. Perfect love casts out fear, right? When you know what you have (love), and when you know that you are connected to the limitless supply, then you don't have to be afraid to lose what you've got. You can give what you've got without hesitation. And you don't have to worry about what happens after you give what you've got. That's what love is: Gladly giving everything you have and everything you are with no worries about whether it will be received or not. And don't get me wrong, wisdom is important here, because not everybody likes to eat the same things, so you can't feed everybody the same way. You need to, again, see a need and meet THAT need. Don't try to fix problems that aren't there. And don't try to do things that you can't do. If you try to operate outside of what you're capable of... you'll end up hurting instead of helping. If there's something you can't do to help... get some help. Because we're all in this together. We're all parts of the same body of Christ. But we're DIFFERENT parts. If there's something I can't do, maybe you can. And then by working together we'll get it all done. Jesus is altogether lovely, right? Which means WE are lovely all together. When we work together. Sharing a meal is what makes it even better, right? Good food... and good company. Eating and sharing. Building each other up even as we learn and grow... together. That's what this life is all about-- its not good for man to be alone. Its good for us to be connected. The food and drink of love is what connects us!