Headed home from a leadership conference last week, my colleagues and I stopped to get gas. As we pulled up to the pumps, a woman on the other side of the filling station laid a fuel nozzle on the ground, with it still turned on! She ran into the store, as a growing river of gasoline flowed behind her SUV and into the parking lot.
“We need to stop it!” I said, bolting from the car and running toward the accident waiting to happen. I picked up the spewing nozzle and pulled the trigger, but the auto shut off was jammed!
After a few more frantic seconds, I stuck my finger behind the slippery hold open latch and physically disengaged it. The flow stopped. Still holding the dripping nozzle, I looked down and saw I was standing in a giant puddle of gasoline.
Someone from the store arrived on the scene, followed by the driver who’d started the gusher. I handed the employee the nozzle and walked away.
Later, in the bathroom, washing gasoline off my shoes and pants, it hit me. “One spark could have started an inferno out there, and I was standing in the middle of it!”
Back in the car and on the road, I shook like a leaf from all the adrenaline. That’s when God whispered, “You can wade into a stream of gasoline to turn off a gushing nozzle, but can’t find faith and courage to serve me in your life’s calling?”
The Lord was right. I’m often down for heroic acts, but struggle to live up to the moment-by-moment everyday tasks. The Holy Spirit whispered again:
In every moment, do exactly what God has called you to do.
The Third Person of the Trinity
Helping a little kid tie his shoes, is just as important as stopping a run away gas pump.
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)
Kind reader, you and I are works in progress. And, if we are committed followers of Christ, it’s God’s progress. Whether our good works are heroic or mundane, the good Lord always finishes what He starts.
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6 (NIV)
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️Prayers and love.
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