Immobilized or Mobilized?

 

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

 

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.

Colossians 3:23

 

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

John 9:4

We can be immobilized or mobilized by today’s headlines of war and trauma in the world.

Jesus had no paper to read, no text messages barraging His phone, no phone! He had no widescreen, thin screen, folding screen to flash the latest deaths of innocent people across His consciousness, ruining His day.

He carried it all, every single war, every innocent child killed, every weeping mother, every desolate father, every ethnic aggression, every girl violated, every boy abandoned, every single thing that grieves us today all at one time for all of time upon His gentle and humble heart. And He set His face like flint upon the work of the Father who sent Him. He worked with all His might. He worked with all His heart. He worked while it was day, for He knew night was coming, even for the Son of God.

And on that fateful day on Calvary’s hill, Jesus carried and conquered it all.

Everything has been carried, beloved.

We can’t carry it all.

The great suffering in the world today and our access to it can immobilize us, or it can mobilize us to work while it is still day. #secondarytrauma Share on X

What can you and I do? Let us look around us today. Who is in reach? Who needs us to work with all our might and all our hearts on their behalf?

Let us rise and do the work while it is still day. May we be mobilized, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea. 

God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
    and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

though its waters roar and foam
    and the mountains quake with their surging.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
    the holy place where the Most High dwells.

God is within her, she will not fall;
    God will help her at break of day.

Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
    he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Come and see what the Lord has done,
    the desolations he has brought on the earth.

He makes wars cease
    to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.

He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

The Lord Almighty is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Psalm 46

Lord, mobilize me today. May I work with all my heart and might for You. Amen.

@audreycfrank

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