Is jesus smiling or weeping when He looks at you?

We conducted can do’ day at our church this Sunday. Basically all of the people who do various tasks at the church even including the preacher, Sunday school teachers, nursery workers, et al took the day off and others took their places. We had new musicians, singers, ushers, greeters, bus driver, and even the preacher was replaced by a layman taking a stab at preaching. Everyone had been encouraged to sign up for this, but I did not participate. My excuse was that last week I had to leave for Atlanta before daylight on Monday morning and did not get in until almost midnight Friday night and I knew I would be dead tired with just a little rest and then off to St. Louis on Monday for another long week on the road next week.

As I sat there and watched everyone trying their best I was ashamed. I could have easily played the guitar and/or sang during this service and certainly could have offered my powerful testimony, or taught a Sunday school class; I could have greeted others, or helped take up the offering and on and on. I did nothing but watch and listen as others served their Lord. Perhaps the most stirring thing I heard concerning those who worked on can do’ day was how a mother and her daughter signed up to remove weeds from the church lawn. The pastor observed them working in the hot sun on Saturday afternoon. The moving thing about their service to their Lord is that the little girl is blind. She sat near a flower bed and felt the ground with her little hands trying to find weeds as best she could, (I was at the nautical flea market Saturday afternoon.)

I wonder if Jesus was smiling or weeping or maybe a little of both as He watched this sweet little angel trying to serve Him as best she could in total darkness. I know He was radiating love upon her and I know He has blessings for her that will far surpass the handicaps she must endure in this life. As for me, I do not think He was smiling as He watched me Sunday; how disappointed He must have been in me as He considered all of the many gifts with which He has blessed me sitting there idle. No doubt He was sadly shaking His head.

When one thinks about it, Can do’ day should be every day for those who love the Lord, not just a novelty day once in a blue moon. I can offer my best to the Lord every day of the week if I commit to it. We can all come up with excuses for not serving the Lord, but in the end it is just satan trying to convince us not to use our talents for the service of the Lord. I’m determined to try much harder to use what talents the Lord has given me for serving Him. How about you?

1 Peter 4:10
God has given gifts to each of you from His great variety of spiritual gifts.
Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through you. Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God Himself were speaking through you.
Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God
supplies. Then God will be given glory through Jesus Christ. All glory
and power belong to Him forever. Amen.