Doer
“But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?” James 2:20.
General Stonewall Jackson’s famous valley campaign.
Jackson’s army found itself on one side of a river when it needed to be on the other side.
– he called his wagon master in to tell him that it was urgent the wagon train cross the river as soon as possible.
The wagon master started gathering all the logs, rocks and fence rails he could find and built a bridge.
Long before daylight the wagon master told General Jackson that all the wagons and artillery had crossed the river.
General Jackson asked where the engineers were and what were they doing.
The wagon master’s only reply was that they were in their tent drawing up plans.
It has been said that there are three kinds of people:
Those who make things happen.
Those who watch things happen.
With God’s help-
I want to be a doer and among those who make things happen.
In college days, I was attending a youth group in a local church.
The group was struggling and I was asked by the leaders what I thought was wrong.
I said that I didn’t feel I had a right to criticize unless I was willing to do something about the problems.
Guess what?
I got actively involved as a doer.
Those were some of my best college days.
Let’s not be critical unless we are willing to be involved.
To be a doer-
– start doing something of eternal value,
– realizing that we serve God by serving people.
“Dear God, please help me to invest my life by being actively involved as a doer in the work of Your Kingdom—no matter how small and menial the tasks I do may appear to be.
And help me every day to be ‘as Christ’ to all who cross my path.
Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus’s name, Amen.”