My mother and father had chores for me everyday growing up. They were not much at all but they wanted me to learn that life is not just waking up and wandering through the day. Each day should have purpose. Time should not be wasted. There is far too much to accomplish and achieve in this world. I can now see the love and restraint in their faces when they would come home after a long day and I had not completed a thing. Time wasted they thought and I thought the opposite for I had usually spent the time doing something “fun”. God has so much that he wants us to have. He has so many gifts that he wishes to bestow on us but we gain them through doing his wishes, his chores. We learn compassion and how to love through helping the needy. We build networks bridges and a strong foundation in our lives by helping our neighbors in need. If we were to all give what little extra we have, be it an old sweater, those couple extra cans of food in the pantry, that extra dollar we were going to use to by a soda kicking around in our wallet, we could cloth the naked, feed the hungry and help take care of the sick. If we were to take that second to ask, “Where do you go to Church?”, we could easily start conversations that would let us share the love of God. By sharing all of these things we would then know that they would be there for us if we ever needed them. Love could truly blossom and spread on this earth, and love is a treasure that we can all use more of each day. So the question is, “Do I do what God wishes each day?” If not, why not? Is it fear, greed or negligence. God calls us each day to steward this world to a better place. If we could just have some faith God would truly help us put some heaven on earth. God has already laid the greatest Christmas present ever of all time at our feet all we have to do is accept it. Jesus is ready waiting for us to accept him so that he can teach us how to find our way. All we have to do is take out our trash to make room for him so that we can start living a life that is truly wonderful, full of love and free.
Matthew 21:28-32
28"What do you think? A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, `Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' 29And he answered, `I will not'; but afterward he repented and went. 30And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, `I go, sir,' but did not go. 31Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him.
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