Honor God with your effort and leave the results to him.
The culture we grow up in affects our view of the Kingdom of God. We must understand that the Kingdom of God is different from any other human culture, system or values. It operates completely differently. It is set apart.
Americans tend to inflate efficiency, speed and autonomy. We often gravitate to overvalue the leader and unintentionally overlook those who spend their time on uninspiring, normal tasks.
“God’s economy” isn’t American. He sometimes produces the largest tree from the smallest seed. Once he chose a pregnant, unmarried, teenage girl to carry the savior of the world. How would I respond if a girl in my town told me she was pure and yet pregnant? Would I believe that she saw an angel? Would I respond in the flesh?
Sometimes God sends a king to be born poor and in a stable. Once God delivered a nation through a wrongfully imprisoned faithful young man from a foreign land (Joseph). Once God choose the most strident and zealous enemy of the Church and anointed him to write most of the new testament. Once God used a man who was not a great public speaker, to speak on his behalf for his nation (Moses).
God’s way is not the American Way. God reserves the right to surprise his people!
Should a gifted evangelist spend his or her time cutting the grass? Perhaps it would be most efficient to plan the next crusade.
God judges the heart, and this is ultimately the root of why we should abandon a fixation on trying to develop shortcuts to results and realize that God honors effort! We must leave the results to God and stop worrying about conserving energy and being more efficient with our time.
If God happens to be more pleased with a humble evangelist cutting the grass than a puffed up / hyped up/ thousands of people coming to know Christ at an event. If that’s what God wants, then we should closely seek his desires.
Large soul winning events have transformed the world and is an awesome move of the Holy Spirit. We must not lose sight of what is just as awesome is the faithful, obedient Christian who serves in the dull routine of life.
