Well Done

I woke up this morning out of sorts. I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. I had woken up several times in the middle of the night worrying about things. What if I don’t get a job, or if I do it doesn’t meet the needs of my family finances. You can see where I’m going, have you been there before? Or maybe you’re there right now. I saw a sign one time that said “worry is interest paid on a debt that may never come due”. I tried reciting the verse that says “ look at the lilies of the field and how beautiful they are, if God put so much care and work to make them so beautiful , how much more does he care for you. I wasn’t having any of it.

My friend Mike across the street from me is a pastor of a local church. I was reading his blog this week and he wrote about a guy named Joe who died and how he will miss Joe and, he went on to write how Joe went about Joe worked without anyone asking or any recognition. How many of us can say that. I drove by the church Mike pastors and the reader board said “goodbye Joe, we’ll see you soon” meaning they will see him in heaven.

I went home and yes you guessed it started to shovel snow in my driveway again. When I grow up I’m getting a snow blower. I put the music on and the song I’ll fly away came on, I sang to the song in my head only and started to think what I want to be said about me when I go. I thought many things “like loved his wife and family, served God well, and always gave to others and such things. I then remembered what Mike wrote about Joe. While that was nice and Joe was quite a person for Mike to write so much about him. That’s not it.

I then remembered what the author Luke wrote about a man named Steven in the book of Acts Chapter 7 in the bible. Stephen is called on the carpet by the so called religious people of the day. He stands them on his their ear and tells them off so to speak. Not because he wanted to belittle them, he spoke to correct and point out the truth. Well they didn’t listen they stoned him, yea that’s right they threw rocks at him until he died. It says in verse 56 Stephen looks up and heaven opens up and he sees God and Jesus waiting for him. I wonder if Joe saw that, it wouldn’t surprise me if he did. To wrap it up it says in the last verse of chapter 7 that a man named Saul was there giving his approval of the death. Nice guy huh?

Later as Saul is riding on a road God knocks him off his mule and blinds Saul and they have a little conversation. The long and short of it that Saul repents and God changes Saul’s name to Paul and he went on to do many things for the kingdom of God and wrote many of the books in the New Testament. The point is that he wasn’t as nice person and God forgave his sins. No matter if you’ve done a lot bad of things as Saul or worse, God forgives. He forgave Saul and he’ll forgive you to ask him.

What I want said about me is for God to say when I stand before him, and I will to say “well done my good and faithful servant”. Join me in heaven and we’ll see