What We Have To Offer

It might be a good idea for each of us to stop ourselves periodically in the midst of serving and ask, "What am I relying on? Whom am I pointing people to?" Because if our Kitchen Service doesn't point people to Jesus, we risk becoming surrogate messiahs. If we, not God, end up being their source of hope, we are setting them up for profound disappointment and ourselves for profound burnout-because we, in ourselves, are simply not up to the task of saving the world. In ourselves, like Peter and John at the gate called Beautiful, we have nothing to offer. But in Christ, we are given the power to give people what they most desperately need. Only God you see, can make rag dolls whole. Our job is just to be his rag-doll emissaries, formed in his likeness, filled with this love, and endued with his power. And gifted with the privilege of sharing a loving Father with our orphan world. (From: Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World)

How guilty I am of all the above! I do want to solve the problems of the world, I do find that I am burnout, and I do have people thinking I'm their source. It's not to late for me or the other Marmary's (part Mary part Martha) to change those things. I'm working on it, of course when I see it in my study it does sting a little-and then again it should. Most of the time I need that whack in the heart to open my eyes. Have a blessed day!