This was part of our sermon this past Sunday at Trinity Lutheran off of pine street in Paw Paw (plug 😉) ahem the 9:30 service is my favorite, I may be biased as I know a guy in the band (it’s my dad)
Part of the sermon talked about getting up every day and saying “Speak Lord, your servant is listening” as your feet are hitting the floor. What a cool thing to be in the practice of doing. PrACTice was another sermon a few months back. With that 3 letter word ACT sandwiched in the middle. Talk about convictions.
It’s so easy to say, I’m going to do this and that, tomorrow I’m going to be better at (insert blank here). Or for instance, on Sunday I was all geared up and excited from the sermon and I was all set out to definitely wake up and pray that prayer. But then, life. It was 6:30 and a baby was crying little children were running to tell me about it, and I didn’t fall asleep until 12:45 due to working late and so on and so forth. And it’s so very easy to put one foot in front of the other and fall into the pattern of the day-to-day and what we always do. It’s challenging to break the mold. Routine is dangerous because it can be your best friend if your superpower is, organization, but it can also be your enemy because it keeps us from stepping out into life. What if we all became a “yes man or yes woman” but only to God? It means the plans you’ve set out to accomplish may not get accomplished it means the life you are living might be slightly or drastically altered. It also means we have to listen.
Matthew 16:24-26
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Tomorrow I have to break my routine, the rut of the day-to-day. I LOVE the Lord and I try to live for Jesus daily. But have I picked up my cross? Am I following him? At this juncture in life, I’m trying my best to disciple my children. But actions speak louder than words. We have to get out into the world and DO.
So speak Lord, your servants are listening.