Easter Snow
8am on Easter Sunday morning and I am dressed in jeans, sitting at a Burger King drinking coffee and watching the snowfall.
Contradictions. Misfits. Anomalies.
There are so many personal contradictions in that previous statement. Primarily - for 15 years I have been leading worship somewhere on Easter Sunday morning. And yet here I sit, drinking coffee at the Burger King, instead of preparing a band and choir to lead worship for the King of Kings – I am prepping my own heart, and writing to all of you(how many of you are out there? :) to record my thoughts of this moment.
The thing is, I am ok with it. I was concerned that God wouldn’t have me serve him in someway on this one day, which along with the birth and death of Christ is the most important day in the history of mankind. But he is still using me. This morning I got the privilege of being a facilitator for the needs of a start up church here locally in Delaware. They had a last minute need for a keyboard, and I have a friend that was willing to loan his. So I met him at 7am then took it down to the other church. Cool. The body of Christ being generous and working together – someone has a need; we do whatever we can to meet it.
God also used me in a different way last night in preparing the hearts of my wife and girls for worship this morning through a simple time of reading a children's Bible recouting the birth, life, death and resurrection of Christ - then we prayed together as family for the power of the resurrection to help us to be kind to each other, to love each other and to remember that the Lord could return at anytime. In just a moment I will put away my journal, Bible and this blog and go home to take them to worship Jesus as a family. Cool.
We are all God’s servants, called to work for the Lord most high, empowered by the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t matter if we are leading our family in a time around the word or in prayer. If we are hauling equipment around – even just greeting the servers at Burger King with a “Happy Easter” and a “thank you”, was serving God. I may be called primarily to serve God from the platform on Sundays, but this “break” from that aspect of ministry is giving me the chance to more fully appreciate all the other ways that I do and can serve Him. We all fit, even when we feel out of place or unuseful.
Easter Snow. It serves a purpose. It seems like it doesn’t fit. Like it is out of place. And in a sense, it isn’t “normal”, but God has a purpose for every aspect of every season – even the anomalies. I am in the middle of an anomaly in my life and ministry – but God is using it, and in the end, the flowers will still bloom – strangely enough, more appreciated, maybe even somehow better off.
“…we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.” Ephesians 4:15-16
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