Waching daily Oct 3 2018

We said yesterday that a great life only wants to do good things.

But you don't have to do every good thing.

Have you ever been in the checkout line of a store

and the cashier asks if you want to

donate a dollar to help feed starving children in Africa

or to give money to some other cause like that?

Somebody asked me that once, as I was checking out,

and I said "no, thanks."

And then they looked at me and they said,

"Don't you care

"about starving children in Africa?"

You know, of course it's very good to care about starving children in Africa.

If you want to give the dollar, go ahead.

But, you don't have to.

Elisha, as he went on to be a prophet, he did so many good things in his ministry.

He gave a town a clean well.

He once disciplined 42 disrespectful children

and never had a problem with them ever again.

He would have made a great teacher.

He healed a leper.

He set slaves free.

He once prayed that a barren woman would have a son.

She became pregnant and had a son.

Then the son died but then Elisha brought that son back to life again.

He once did something kind of unique.

He made someone's ax head that had fallen into the bottom of a body of water.

He made it float to the surface.

Kind of like Yoda did with the x-wing fighter

when he was training a young Luke Skywalker

in the Star Wars movie.

Great and powerful things Elisha did.

But you don't have to do any of those same things

in order to be a great Christian.

Elisha was a farmer before he was a prophet.

And it wasn't a sin to be a farmer.

It was a good thing.

But it was a good thing that he could no longer do if he was going to carry out this new calling.

Being a Christian means that you can do many good things.

You just must be sure to do

the very particular things that the Lord is calling you to do at this particular moment.

And if you're wondering what those things are, you don't need to go searching for Google

or pray for a sign or wait for a cloak

to drop over your shoulders to know what that is.

You typically

just need to open your eyes when you wake up in the morning.

In the book of Ecclesiastes, it says this. It says,

And so, for example, if you wake up in the morning and there's a spouse

laying down next to you,

God's calling is for you to love them.

If there are children in the house, God's calling is for you to teach them

everything that God has commanded.

If you are a child, and you have a parent,

God's calling is for you to respect that parent.

If you have a friend, God's calling is for you to

encourage them.

If you're a student, God's calling is for you to do your homework

as well as you possibly can.

If you have a job, God's calling is for you to go to your job

and faithfully do it every day and work at it as if you were working

for God.

For Elisha, being a prophet wasn't better than being a farmer.

It was just different.

But it was clearly what the Lord wanted him to do at that moment.

For him.

And for you,

you'll find out what the Lord's will is for you

pretty simply when you open your eyes each morning.

Oh hey, everyone!

Pastor Mike here from Time of Grace.

Did you know there's a brand new way to get connected to God's word

and get that daily dose of encouragement that so many of us are looking for?

It's the all-new

'Your Time of Grace' app.

Did you know that you can now search by pastor,

by topic, by series

or just browse the hundreds of videos that we have here to encourage you in your walk with God?

Just click on the link to the get the app.

Hey!

What did you do?