Today at work, while describing some of my travels and the reasons for them to a couple of co-workers, they laughingly responded with things like, "
I need to be a Christian! [so I can travel too, was the implication]" and "You're
such a do-gooder!" Maybe it was the way they said it, maybe it was a little unexpected out on the playground, surrounded by kids. But I found myself a bit tongue-tied as to how to respond. I kind of shrugged and said something like, "Well, I like to serve and help people out, it brings me joy to do it." Not a
bad response, necessarily. But after the fact I felt a little bit like I'd missed an opportunity to share
more about
why I do what I do--because I've been blessed by God and all that he's done for me, both in taking care of me for this life and for the life to come, and I want to show my love for him by loving on others. Or something along those lines. Easy for the words to come after the fact; harder to spit them out at the time. Ugh.
Tomorrow's a new day....with new opportunities.....new chances to share about the hope that is in me...........
"Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth words may be given me so that I may fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel...pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should." [Eph. 6:19-20]
