A couple of nights ago, I was thinking about an inspirational woman I know. One whose faithfulness has been limitless, who day after day, year after year, has served. Who has willingly and cheerfully sacrificed much to be a blessing to others. She would not think of herself in these terms. I don’t think she has any idea how much she had blessed or how Christlike she has been. And as I thought about her, I wondered, how often do we get our perspective wrong? Do we focus so much on the big and significant, at least what we deem to be so, that we fail to realise what it is that really matters? And what is it that really matters anyway?
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For much of my life, I have felt the compulsion, and the longing, to do stuff for God. But I have also struggled with the profound sense that what I do is not enough. Indeed, the Bible is filled with passages about fruitfulness, and good trees bearing good fruit. How am I to be a good tree? If a tree is known by its fruit then I better produce good fruit, but how do I to do that? And what kind of fruit is good fruit anyway? The only way I have been able to reconcile such thoughts is to do, and to do, and to do. To do something, anything, for God. But how do I know I am doing it for him? After all, what makes an action a God-centred action rather than just a me-centred action?
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