There is a certain peace when you are doing the work for God and not for yourself. A kindof putting your faith and worries into a higher power. But it is also dangerous, completely removing all ownership to your actions and assigning responsibility to God.
And herein lies the problem, when choices are made: what projects to undertake, whether or not to give some lady a ride home 40 minutes away, whether to argue with the bus for charging you almost twice as much because you are a Gringo, or whether or not to participate in a group in church, they are a large reflection of who you are as a person. Yet, at the same time we are taught not to judge, so why worry? Human nature? I certainly do not have the answer.
And with all these things to consider, it is easy to understand why people are self conscious and worry to a level of concern. But I feel when there may be no answer, there may be peace. In this case, I think because there are so many elements involved we should all settle on not worrying about things that are out of our control, mainly other people's perception of us, and focus our energies in loving everyone. It sounds lame, or cheesy even, but if people put has much effort and time into loving one another and forgiving our enemies as we do trying to not make mistakes, would the world be better?
Is it possible? I'm trying and I like the results...what do you have to lose?
And therefore the work has no ownership, I try to use the gifts I've been given to the best of my ability to please the people I am with, and should I fail, should I succeed, there are too many opinions to measure...so I rely on my own and God's...so I guess it's our work.
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