A Love Relationship

Do you remember the first day of a new job? The sights, the sounds, the chaotic feeling of the unknown? I do. I’ve held seven jobs in my lifetime and with each I felt the fear of failure on the first day.

That fear came from not knowing how to do the job I was hired for and not knowing the people I was working with and for. With each one, there was a period of training. In high school, working at McDonald’s, I had a two week training period where someone taught me everything I needed to know to serve the public their Big Mac with a smile. “Would you like fries with that?” In college, someone taught me how to run the fancy new cash register and tell every lady in the Belk’s ladies’ department if the dress she was trying on was flattering or not! Even that first year of teaching, I had someone who faithfully guided me through the procedures of teaching at FCCS.  With each new job, I got to know new people and new bosses.

Blackaby tells us to take the same approach to our service for God. First, we must get to know Him before doing His will. For how do we know His will, if we don’t know Him? It would be the same as trying to do a new job without knowing how. “I think God is crying out to us: “Don’t just do something. Stand there! Enter into a love relationship with Me. Get to know Me. Adjust your life to Me. Let Me love you and teach you about Myself as I work through you. .. Your relationship with God must come first.” (p. 33) I think I missed that because I was saved at church camp at an early age. The lack of discipleship distorted my view of how service to God is suppose to work.

I hope each of you are getting something from this month's book.  Until tomorrow......