I Would Like to Help

For quite a while now I have been filling out job applications, sending my resume to various businesses, making phone calls, and going to interviews that have resulted in me still being very unemployed.  As I began thinking about all the time I have spent looking for work I have started thinking that maybe I have been approaching my search for work from the wrong direction.  Instead of having a motivation of finding work to serve others my motivation has been to make money.  Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with making money, and I like having a source of income just as much as the next guy, but I don’t want that to be why I am looking for work.  As it says in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money”.   If my main purpose in finding a job is to make money then serving God (and others) becomes secondary.

Through lots of thinking and praying I have decided that I am done filling out applications, sending in resumes, making phone calls and going to interviews.  Instead I am going to be offering my time and services to whoever needs them.  If you or someone you know is in need of help in any way (please no child watching, I have two of my own who already run me ragged on a daily basis), I would like to offer you my service.  I’m not going to charge anything for any of the work I do for a couple of reasons.  One, I know that times are tough in our economy and my desire is to help people by serving them and not putting them in an even tighter position; secondly, God has been faithful in providing for me and my family and we have no reason to question his faithfulness and how he will continue to provide for us in whatever ways he deems fit.  So if I can help you or someone you know in some way PLEASE let me know because I would love to!  If you live in Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, Arizona or any other foreign country I apologize but I most likely won’t be able to assist you due to distance complications.  But if you are around west Michigan or even a little farther away and could use a hand with something (or know of someone who could use some help), leave me a message and I will be more than happy to assist you in any way that I can.

Romans 12: 4-7:  For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach.