This
morning I was reading about wheels and gears. It became thought provoking as I
noticed the similarity between, how one wheel turned another, in order to
achieve a particular goal. I was remind as I looked at those moving parts how
people need each other to accomplish different task that may require them
working together. Alone, the wheel or gear just sits by itself accomplishing
nothing. But with the help of another similar gear working in sequence, they
can transmit a rotational motion that makes things happen and gets things done.
The article showed a moving picture of the two gears working together. I also
noticed that the smaller gear was turning over several times more often than
the big wheel as it made its rotation. While the speed of the gears were the
same on both, you could tell that they both depended upon each other to
complete the turn. Now you may be thinking right now, "she has lost it",
but I love it when I am reading, writing, watching a movie or talking to
someone and something that I see or read, leads me to another train of thought
or some insight to something else, similar but different.
In
all this thinking, I was reminded of how we need each other and how important
it is that we work together to accomplish the great commission in Matthew 28,
given to all Believer's in Christ. It also made me think about this COVID-19
situation and how many people are stuck at home day after day wondering what
tomorrow will bring. I thought about Mom's and Dad's having to home school their
children in which they feel inadequate as teachers and wonder if what they are
doing matters. About caregivers that know they must go out every day and meet
the highly contagious nasty villain "sever acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus" and for all of the "essential workers" like myself
who must work whether they like it or not, in order to keep the wheels of our
economy from coming to a complete stop, as well as being a service to the
public at hand. There are lots of wheels turning today my friend and without
them turning life would be drastically altered in so many ways.
I
want to take this time to encourage you where you are to be the wheel! I can
speak encouragement to you today from my own experience of where you may be.
To
the parent who is stuck at home with the kids day in and day out, know that God
is giving you an opportunity to make the best of this time while you have it.
Your job is so very important as you manage a small company within your home of
very important people. As a Mom that home schooled 2 daughters in years past, I
know many of the concerns you have and the discouragements that you are facing
daily. But may I remind you that your attitude is everything! Remind yourself
constantly that you are rubbing off on them the life lessons that you, yourself
have learned and are having to learn given your situation. Your attitude and
behavior is teaching them how to respond in their own life's trials and
troubles. Use this time for it will be so short, to draw them in to a circle or
at the table and teach them to pray. Teach them how to go before the Lord over
everything. And teach them to be thankful for the smallest of things, so that
their life may honor the Lord by your doing so. Be mindful that if they see you
gripping and complaining, guess how they are going to respond. And be ever so
mindful when you are fussing at them for their rotten attitudes that yours has
not become a little on the "too ripe" side as well. Be the wheel
sweet friend!
To
the caregiver who puts their life on the line every time they must leave their
home and be in a dangerous situation, think of the leapers who wanted so bad to
have Jesus acknowledge them with just a touch or look as they went to Him for
healing… because I can assure you, no one else would have wanted to and they
knew it! Sick people need someone, and maybe only your tender love will reach
them with the message of the gospel as you continue in the way of the Christian
solider to use this opportunity to serve the suffering in spite of what your
fears may try to convince you of. Be the wheel sweet friend!
To
those of you like myself, who may not work in the medical field, but are
essential in our services to our communities and must be out and around those
that may potentially have the virus I say, thank you! Don't lose heart, let us
continue doing what we can do with others in mind, knowing that our services
are of help and we will not complain because we know that there are many who
have lost jobs and are unable to work at all!
To
all who are at home and are doing your part in slowing down this virus, big
kudos to you! Please know that you are not alone and that your effort and
sacrifice has not gone unnoticed. Continue to be the wheel sweet friend! While
none of us really understand the long term outcome of this pandemic, as
believer's we know and can trust that there is a bigger picture to be seen and
while we cannot see it as of yet, God does. May all our work be that of
Colossians 3:23, "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as
working for the Lord, not for human masters," We now have the opportunity
more than we ever have had in most of our lifetimes to sing the march of the
Christian solider and understand the greater meaning of its words! So, Onward
Christian Soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on
before!
Hold Fast,
-Bren
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