Hi Everyone! Its Jennifer Ross again, guest blogging for Kelsey. I am up in Louisville this weekend to help hire a woman to replace Kelsey when she leaves for Boston (to go live with her husband). All of the candidates are absolutely amazing! I am really excited to meet all of them. But enough about that.
I was asked recently what I was going to do for Jesus this summer. While initially I thought that this was a completely fair question, now that I have been thinking about it for a while, I have some thoughts to go with this question. Maybe y’all, the people who read this blog can help me out with what I am struggling with. While I am ok with the idea that one thing that you do is a special devotion to God, I believe that everything you do everyday is and necessarily should be for God, for Jesus. For example, if I were to work at a Soup Kitchen or at a Day Care program for an hour and a half ever week, would that mean that I have done what I need to for God, I have done my tribute to God, and now I don’t have to think about God until Sunday morning at Church? It just seems to me that with one thing set out to be for God, I would start to lose the importance and reverence of all things around me because they are not part of my particular God action. I would have my God time once a week for an hour or two, depending on what I was doing, and then I wouldn’t have to worry for the rest of the week about realizing God in everything.
Let me be clear, I think serving others is a fabulous thing, something that should be a part of every person’s daily life. It is in these moments when I feel most connected to God. But “doing things for Jesus” should be part of a persons everyday life, not just during a specific time.
But maybe all of this is not the intent of the question. Maybe the question was aimed at getting me to think about everything I am doing in my life and how it relates to God-if I was living my life in such a way that praises God and God’s kingdom. Maybe I am supposed to realize that by focusing on God and Jesus completely during a specific time, I will start to realize the presence of God all the time, surrounding me.
So this is my predicament, my question, for the day. How exactly am I supposed to understand the question of what am I going to do for Jesus this summer? Maybe y’all can help me.

Thanks for reading!

Jennifer

Hi Jennifer,
I will not write much my granddaughter is getting married at five today. Happy times! But I do think you are really on the right track with this idea of everything we do being for God. In fact our vocation as a ministry to God is a really a Reformed idea. But not just vocation, even reading a good book with your feet up and a nice glass of ice tea is something I believe belongs to the life we live for Jesus Christ.
Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Viola