You Matter 👉😲
"There is one body, but it has many parts. But all its many parts make up one body. It is the same with Christ." ~ 1 Corinthians 12:12
Imagine this... you've been hired and given a job to do.
You see this as an opportunity of a lifetime, because you'll now be working on one of the biggest and most exciting engineering projects in the western hemisphere.
With aspirations of one day managing projects like this in the future, with your own credentials, and firm, and reputation... though you're only just now starting your course of study in engineering... you see this as a great stepping stone that could catapult your career into the stratosphere where you can make real waves and even make a real difference.
Then on your first day on the job, you realize that the person in charge assigns you to be responsible for charging batteries. You have to get up super-early and come in before everyone else to ensure that all the batteries are properly charged... and then, as if that wasn't rough enough... you have to also be the last to leave the site, ensuring that all the collected batteries are correctly and properly set to charge overnight so that the same cycle can be repeated in the morning.
At first, it's easy enough keeping up the commitment to the role and responsibility given, but then as night follows day, and monotonous day follows night... you start to feel a little insignificant, especially where 80% of the other people on the site are established engineers, walking around with their hard hats, toolbelts and blueprints.
Eventually, your dedication to the task wanes a bit and your engagement level starts to drop off. You even start to shirk a little on the whole shepherding of the batteries duty. You skip a battery here, half-charge a battery there... eventually you even allow a little slide to your work ethics and work hours... after all, who cares if you come in a little later, or leave a little earlier.
Then one day, it happens.
You arrive at the site and there's a terrifying plume of smoke, way more than will allow your mind to convince your heart that everything's okay. It turns out that a broken pillar had severed a power line overnight causing the batteries not to charge... and since you'd stopped fully charging the batteries by this point... unknown to everyone, all the batteries were practically depleted.
Unfortunately, the broken pillar was structurally a critical piece of infrastructure and damage to it lead to dangerous radiation leakage... however, none of the workers on the site had any clue, because the device that they were mandated to wear for safety reasons failed to function, because none of them had charged batteries.
As a result, the leakage went undetected until alas, there was a huge and catastrophic explosion. 💥
What then is the moral of this story?
Our service and attitude and approach to life can easily mirror that of the young student in this story.
We often have lofty goals of making it big in life and in the Kingdom of God. We want to be given those towering tasks, that can easily and clearly be seen... sometimes by others, and oftentimes by ourselves. We want to make an impact and have that impact felt far and wide. We're ready for the big leagues!
On the flip-side however, it's so easy to discard the critical importance of some of the lesser-seen tasks... especially those that have a monotonous flair to them. We often fail to realize the absolute critical and equal importance supporting ministries play in the bigger scheme of the Great Commission.
If no one opens the doors, who then can attend the service?
Oh, it's all online now?
Well, if no one reaches out to invite the unsaved, to whom will the preacher preach?
If no one checks in on the sick, or the lonely, or the poor... how then can the body of Christ be built?
Perhaps you sometimes feel like your situation, your circumstance, your contribution to God's mission is unimportant and inconsequential, maybe you feel like you're just wasting time "running spiritual errands" instead of making spiritual waves. Maybe you feel that way right now.
If you do, or when you do... do take the time to remind yourself that God has made it clear that we are all part of one body, with many parts... each part having its different yet equally important role to play.
It doesn't matter if your ministry doesn't afford you airtime on the pulpit, or the spotlight before the camera... God has designed you uniquely, to make your special contribution to the work of the Lord... only you can do it, and only what you do can have an impact on the people that you are meant to impact.
So whether you pray, preach, teach, wash, wipe, serve or smile for the Lord... what you do matters... You Matter!