Doing What You Are Supposed To Do

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! He is the one I was talking about when I said, 'Soon a man is coming who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before I did.'I didn't know he was the one, but I have been baptizing with water in order to point him out to Israel." (John 1:29-31, NRS)

I had coffee with a friend that amazes me. The word, amaze, can be misused and overused if it is not used in the context of miraculous. The word fits in this context. Her young son died a few years ago. The pain of his death is as real today as it was when he died. Along with family and friends, she began a little non-profit foundation, created in honor of her son, to change the lives of children who are in need and/or ill. They felt it was what they were supposed to do and had faith that God would do the rest. The foundation is growing and amazingly touching and changing the lives of children on a daily basis. No one really had any idea that the foundation would explode in this manner. Isn't it amazing that pain can be used to impact others? How has it been possible?

Look at what John the Baptist said, "'I didn't know he was the one, but I have been baptizing with water in order to point him out to Israel." Yikes! He didn't know Jesus Christ was actually God with us; however, he knew his assignment was to prepare people to recognize the One. John the Baptist could not be sure that what he was doing would truly impact people but he did what he was supposed to do with faith that God would do the rest.

Amazing things occur when we really don't know how things will work but we do what we are supposed to do . . . with what we have . . . in faith that God will do the rest.

Evaluate what you are supposed to do.
Seek God and ask for direction.
Choose to do what you are supposed to do regardless of what you see as impossibilities.
Do what you are supposed to do with faith that God will do the rest.
Be amazed.

Learning with you to do what is supposed to be done,
Shalom,
Kerrie
(All devotions written by Kerrie Palmer ©2008 All Rights Reserved)