His work in our wake
This weeks Gospel could have started “and in conclusion” for me, just to ensure the point has well and truly hit home.
I’ve spent the last few months, maybe the last few years searching for the big purpose. You know the one we are told as Christians we have. The thing that will completely fulfill us, the one that only we were meant for. So we search for a purpose worth creating a LinkedIn profile for. An existence that gathers likes and “wow” remarks on social media. For years that has looked like a Job, a relevant way to while away my days cutting a path through life’s waters standing proudly at the narrow helm of my boat. Waving wildly a different kind of pride flag. To stop seeking is to appear to accept a defeat, to give up trying to be anything other than ordinary. To accept smallness could read selling out.
I came across a diary entry from 2018. It was all I had written that day…
“Of all the great and mighty things I’d love to do for you Lord, I’m learning there is nothing greater than the small task you have actually set before me”
Ever spent time watching bees? A bee spends his day focussed on collecting Pollen to feed those in the hive. Tirelessly he pops from flower to flower sucking up the nectar taking it back to the hive. To the bee this is his only focus. In the scheme of the world however it might appear insignificant, but look what God does with this humble bumbles work. The bee has no idea that the dust collected as he travels fertilises 80% of the food crops we survive on. He has no idea what the Lord does in the wake of his tiny purpose.
My job description right now could read drinking tea with old folks. Perhaps yours might read lunch box maker, or drifting,waiting on Gods whispered directions. It’s what God does in the wake of our little purpose that makes it great … you might recall one such packed lunch fed 5,000 once, some mother had prepared it that morning, St Peters shadow healed as he merely walked by.
This is a mustard seed creed.
If we were focussed on what he is doing in our wake our attention is drawn from the seemingly little task before us, if we could see it, would we feel a huge weight of pressure ? Or like Abraham take matters into our own hands and be tempted to think it all depended on us … or worse still that the fruit was actually ours.
So in conclusion ….if you are feeling like all you do in the Lords’ name looks insignificant, perhaps it’s led you to feel a little worthless, maybe frustrated at the apparent futility of the task you’ve been set. Just think on what the Lord does with the dust off the bumble bees butt. May God bless your wake, may he reward you with a view of the Bird bearing branches born from your mustard-seed-ness service within His perfect time .
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That’s so beautiful. It’s very hard not to try what seems right and work out ‘the plan’ and oh so gloriously humbling to realise we are actually in His hands (& at His feet)
You are a great example of His hands and Feet Catherine, thankyou for your work and faith, you are a gift my friend.