romans 12:11 was on my mind last week. had to keep looking at it.
i was thinking about what to tell Velocity Church when i was visiting them. since i know firsthand how we christians can get self centered, overfed, and unconcerned, it caught my attention when it says “keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord”.
seems like that is telling us that if our fervor, or fire, or energy, is lacking, it can be restored by serving. i know my own energy for the kingdom is boosted when i’m sharing food downtown.
here’s the cool thing; saturday morning, we were getting ready to take some pasta-ziti downtown. i looked at a pan of food, and on the foil cover, guess what was written on the foil? ROMANS 12:11 !!! the same verse i’d been checking out all week!
i said “who wrote this”? found out it was chrissy, whose daughter was supposed to learn it for sunday school that week.
chrissy said that she was getting frustrated while preparing the food, and then she remembered the scripture…. then stepped away and prayed to remember why she was doing it. then she wrote it on the foil…
i think it was God, just challenging us to continue to serve. and to serve with great love.
i couldn’t believe it was right there, written on aluminum foil! God’s soooo cool! (rusty got it and framed it. it’s pretty neat. thanks rusty)
“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.“Â Mother Theresa
one small meal at a time, lovingly prepared. . . . . that’s “dude, share the food”
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