God reminded me of something today. Time is fleeting, family is important and friendship is a gift that’s value cannot be measured. The human race was created with the capacity to love each person we come in contact with. Notice I said the capacity to love, not that we do it. We have the ability to place the needs of others above our own, yet we don’t. We have the ability to love on another, yet we don’t. No – we have turned out to be rather self-centered and unfeeling toward our fellow man. Let tragedy strike in our own home and we expect everyone to stop for us, but when it hits someone else we can’t be bothered. This isn’t how we were designed to live.
Instead of spending our days worrying about me, my four and NO MORE, we should be spending our time lifting up others in prayers, seeking out ways to help our neighbor in need. Today a friend came to me with a prayer request. Now, what you need to understand is she is a rather private person when it comes to her prayer life. She doesn’t put it out there for everyone to see – it’s just between herself and God. Now, before you jump up screaming I shouldn’t be talking about it – I’m not. I’m talking about how her request of my time changed my whole day. It was in this moment that I realized I had spent to much time swallowed up by my own issues, that I forgot to value what I had. It was in this moment that I realized despite all of my failure and short comings that God still had a purpose for each day of my life. It was in this moment that I realized today my purpose was to lift up a friend in prayer; to give her worries more room in my heart and mind that my own and it was in the realization that I noticed my own freedom. My worries have lost their grip on me and hers are not a burden she has to carry alone.
You see, it’s the small things in life that matter. God works in mysterious ways. The simple request of a prayer freed two people this morning. The value of friendship made the way. So I ask you; at the end of the day what is truly important; your time or her need?
John 15:13New International Version (NIV)
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Instead of spending our days worrying about me, my four and NO MORE, we should be spending our time lifting up others in prayers, seeking out ways to help our neighbor in need. Today a friend came to me with a prayer request. Now, what you need to understand is she is a rather private person when it comes to her prayer life. She doesn’t put it out there for everyone to see – it’s just between herself and God. Now, before you jump up screaming I shouldn’t be talking about it – I’m not. I’m talking about how her request of my time changed my whole day. It was in this moment that I realized I had spent to much time swallowed up by my own issues, that I forgot to value what I had. It was in this moment that I realized despite all of my failure and short comings that God still had a purpose for each day of my life. It was in this moment that I realized today my purpose was to lift up a friend in prayer; to give her worries more room in my heart and mind that my own and it was in the realization that I noticed my own freedom. My worries have lost their grip on me and hers are not a burden she has to carry alone.
You see, it’s the small things in life that matter. God works in mysterious ways. The simple request of a prayer freed two people this morning. The value of friendship made the way. So I ask you; at the end of the day what is truly important; your time or her need?
John 15:13New International Version (NIV)
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.