WORKS OF THE FATHER

(Matthew 6:1-4) Msg "Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding. When you do something for someone else, don't call attention to yourself. You've seen them in action, I'm sure—'playactors' I call them— treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds. They get applause, true, but that's all they get. When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out."

"Mama, Mama watch me!" And then our children would perform. "Mama, Mama watch me!" Again, I would watch the same performance. You know this scene. Anyone with children has seen this, heard this and experienced this many times.

We are performing for our parents but also for those around us. We want them to see us. We want the attention. As we grow up, that part of us really never changes, does it? We still seek recognition, we just learn to hide it and be a little cooler about it.

When Jesus came to do His works, changing water into wine, healing the sick, making the blind see and so on, He never said, "Oh look at these great miracles I have performed." No, Jesus never used the word "Miracle." Jesus always referred to what He did as the "Works of His Father." He always directed the attention away from Himself and onto His Father.

How are we supposed to do that? By keeping our eyes on our Heavenly Father, dancing for only One. When you forget about the world around you and live for only Him, nothing else really matters. It will be like staring into the eyes of your lover.

Remember our rewards are not of this place but of our eternal home…….

Blessings………


(Prayer request-- one of my sweet potato queens (a group of us girls that get together often) is in surgery as you are reading this for a tumor on her brain, I guess that makes it a brain tumor but the other way sounded a little better… her name is Pam…. Please lift her up in prayer….)