The un-sexy work Jesus invites us into may be long-suffering, toilsome, tiring and expensive, but we\u2019re not doing it for ourselves \u2013 it\u2019s UNTO HIM!<\/p>\n

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• What if we mentored troubled kids \u2013 any age \u2013 and stuck with them through ALL THEIR GROWING years?<\/li>\n
• What if we volunteered with Kids Hope and actually gave a kid hope?<\/li>\n
• What if we joined a refugee\/immigration settlement organization and spent the next FIVE years mentoring a new family?<\/li>\n
• What if we talked to our neighbors, learned of their suffering, and prayed with them weekly?<\/li>\n
• What if we made homemade casseroles and brought them to the homeless camps (trust me, they exist) every week?<\/li>\n
• What if we enter in to the roller-coaster life of the mentally unstable \u2013 the bi-polar friend, the depressed sister-in-law, the suicidal teen, the homicidal neighbor?<\/li>\n
• What if we mentored those in troubled pregnancies?<\/li>\n
• What if we helped pay the heat bill every winter for a family who heats their home with the stove?<\/li>\n
• What if we gave up eating out for six months just so another family could EAT?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  You know what I think would happen if we did some of these things? We\u2019d be tired. We\u2019d be involved with these issues for a really long time and get frustrated with the slow pace of change. We might even get angry at those we are serving. We\u2019d want to give up and quit over and over and over.<\/p>\n

  But we\u2019d be doing the work of Jesus, for HIM, and for His glory. Not ours.
  \u201cWhatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d Colossians 3:23-24<\/strong><\/p>\n

  This is the way of Jesus. And it ain\u2019t sexy.
  Don\u2019t make Jesus your sexy Valentine.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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