So often we are tempted. Tempted to cut corners. Tempted to forego the right thing in favor of the easier thing, because the easier thing is more difficult. Or perhaps we feel the right thing is not right in our eyes.
Take the servant who returned the masters pound. No investment. No interest. The servant felt that because the master was severe and dishonest – he took things into his own hands and made his own determination, not respecting his master’s authority. He didn’t do his job, the job he was task with.
Imagine if the world behaved like this. Oh wait, it does,
All over the place, we’re taking things into our own hands. We live in a world of perpetual adolescence where we act immature, wanting things to be done the way we want it, our own way.
So often we don’t respect authority. We see it in the workplace. We see it in the schools. We most definitely see it in our homes, and of course we see it in our faith.
We want what we want and we want it now. And if we don’t agree with something or someone, well as my niece used to say when she was little – “you’re not the boss of me”. I’ll do it my own way.
Respect for authority is gone. Or so it seems.
I know it is so easy to look at this world and just see doom and gloom. Everyone in authority seems to fail us. And yes, even God seems to fail us often. So it seems.
But that is not the case. He’s giving us opportunities every day to follow Him – to use the gifts we’ve been given, and the responsibility given to us to make a difference.
Do we have hope and faith in Him and see it through to completion, even through the uncertainty and the pain and discomfort?
Do we squander what He has given us in favor of our own personal goals or beliefs? Or in other words – do we do the job before us, the job God has in store for us, and do it to our fullest? Or do we simply mail it in and call it a day, then go do whatever we want?
As you may have noticed, I write like this a lot, about the simple choices we have in our daily actions, because they are just that – simple. I love finding the simplicity in things, seeing it in the everyday actions.
But yet, seeing this simplicity is so hard. Do we have the hope and the faith to see things through, to see the simple decision?
Do we have the hope and faith to do our jobs, to do the right thing that in our minds we know is right, even when it may not feel like the right thing to do in our hearts?
Think about this.
