Monday: Full or Part time?

You prepare a table before me! My cup overflows! Goodness and love will follow me!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and it really is a good morning. It is Monday, and it is snowing in our area, and blowing some, and the news is telling of accidents in the area. If you are going on the road, remember this safety tip from an old safety man -- SLOW DOWN AND TAKE IT EASY. Easy on the gas, easy on the brakes, and easy on the steering. Remember, you do not make any time at all in your travel when you are sitting on the side of the road filling out accident reports, and your insurance folks will love you even more if you stay out of accidents.

It is Monday and the day we pray for our veterans, our military, our police, our firefighters, and all those who work to keep us safe. It is also the day we pray for our leaders, and we need to really be praying for our President. May I ask you to please pray first for his soul, and then for all of our leaders to get on their knees and pray for God's help in their jobs ... please ... and please trust God to take care of your needs and not Washington -- JESUS IS STILL THE ONE IN CHARGE.

Full or Part Time? A lot of people have lost their jobs, and I would guess that the very first thing they do is to go and sign up for that unemployment check. Folks, and I am serious about this, if I were still working, and I got that pink slip, I would stop and put in applications on my way home from work, and I mean that. I would take a full-time job cleaning toilets or making beds in a motel, or making burgers at a local burger joint. In fact, these jobs that some people look down their nose about are some of the very best jobs. Not because of the pay, not because of the bennies, but because they serve others. Remember how Jesus washed the feet of His disciples? Is that not teaching us to serve others? Now I did jump off the subject a little bit. But let me get back to that pink slip. First of all, if you really love Jesus, really love Him with all your heart, you might look at this as a blessing ... yes a blessing.

Romans 8: 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those WHO LOVE HIM, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV)

Maybe God wants you to be doing something else in life. In life some people want a job that pays the most. They want those big dollar jobs, and then you can go to the other end of the scale and find that some people want it all handed to them. Folks, someplace in the middle of all of that, you find most of the workers of our good Lord. I ask this today, if you lost that 40-hour-a-week job, what is wrong with getting two jobs that cover 50 hours? No benefits you say ... ok, but you have a job that pays good money. Now here is a real good tip for those hunting jobs. When the market opens up some, those who went and took part-time jobs over the government handouts will catch the eye of the owners of businesses. Am I making any sense? Folks, there are jobs out there to be had, maybe you might need to change fields, but there are jobs out there. If you drive and have a good driving record, go and find out about school bus driving. You might be surprised just how much that pays. Or do this, go to a big food store, find the manager, and tell him or her that you will work a week for free just to show them how good you work. Tell them you will clean the toilets, clean the floor, stock the shelves, bring in carts ... tell them I WANT TO WORK, not I need a job.

Full or Part Time? You know when it comes to working for the Lord, some people work full-time and some work part-time. Let me tell you that those who are not working full-time for the Lord might just be working fool time. While for some people who are in the full-time ministry and working for Jesus it is the way they make a living, all of us need to be working full-time for Jesus. Everyone is called to serve the Lord, however, not all are called to the ministry full-time. Our Lord Jesus was, is, and always will be, the best boss you will ever have, and more than likely the only one who willingly died for you. If you really love Jesus, if you really trust in Him, if you really work for Him full-time, and I am talking about those earning wages through the ministry and also those just working a labor of Love for Jesus, you will find that Jesus will take care of you. He told us that, and He does not lie. The Bible also tells us that those who do not work, well they should not eat ... and that is blunt.

So folks, when it comes to working for our Lord Jesus, always make that a full-time job, and when it comes to going out and earning those wages, part-time is better then no time. And if getting that unemployment check pays more then pumping out burgers, remember you will pay for that in the long run ... trust me on that. Look up, not down, and remember that when you love the Lord, your cup will be running over. God loves you, share His blessings, share His Word, share His love, and step back and watch Him pour it back to You.

Dear Father in Heaven, I pray I got my point across today, what You were telling me to talk about ... bless it, Lord. And Lord, help those people who lost their jobs to look to You and not look to Washington for a hand-out. Lord, bless our troops, our leaders, our police and firefighters. And thanks again for this line. I love You, Jesus ... Amen.

Go working full-time for Jesus, and watch the blessings flow ... Love ya, dan. Oh, and please share your blessings ...