"The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few"
(For Heaven's sake! What Earthly good are we?)
I have always found joy in whatever work I do. I suppose the main reason is that I know I am serving the needs of others. We often have the greatest job satsfaction when we can see the resulting gratitude of those we work for. I suppose I have been blessed to always find work that leaves a lasting impact on my clients. When I was a flooring installer, my great satisfaction was to see the joy in the face of a satisfied client (Their home always looked better when I left than when I had arrived). As a flooring consultant I experience the same result. My clients lives are made richer by the flooring I helped them choose to enhance their home decor. As a minister of the Gospel... I cannot even express the joy and satisfaction I receive when a person's spiritual life is made more complete by the Biblical counsel I have given them (God did the work, but I got to help).
However, all the joys of life and livelyhood can be shattered by physical needs that are not met. I have a sadness within me as I look around at people who are miserable. They have no joy in their work, no joy in their family and no joy in their heart. As often as I experience joy in my life and in the lives of the people that surround me, I suffer pain due to my illness, and the sufferings of others. Tribulations abound while we live on this planet and in these frail bodies. Therefore, no matter how I feel and whatever I go through personally, my desire is for the welfare of my fellow man. I suffer from Fibromyalgia, so I am always in pain and usually lacking for energy, but when I look around me I see so many needs that are far, far greater than mine. No matter how desperately we may wish to serve people spiritually, we often cannot be of spiritual service, until we have been of physical service. We are unable to reach into the hearts of these people, until we have affected their lives. Great tribulation abounds in the lives of God's children, yet there can be no joy or satisfaction in life when you are harmed in your flesh.
The vast majority of people I know are dissatisfied with their job, diseased in their bodies and busted in their bank account. However often they may have a glimpse of happiness, it quickly fades do to the sufferings they are going through. Is this a description of you? Does tribulation have a stranglehold on your body, soul and spirit? What are we to do when life becomes dismal and bleak and we are tempted to give up; give in and just waste away in our troubles? We need to do what Christ taught us to do. We need to service the needs of others, and in so doing, our lives will be made more complete. More Joyous. More Satisfying. As long as we concentrate on ourselves our lives will seem hopeless. We need to look outside ourselves and our own tribulations, so that we can be fit to help others. "The harvest is great, but the laborers are few". Whenever I am tempted to feel sorry for myself, or to think that I am suffering too much, God always seems to remind me of what others are suffering. There is so much need in the world, but there is even greater need in your community, your associates and your own family. Open your eyes to the suffering that is going on in your own family. The grief of an aunt who just lost her husband to cancer. The affliction in the heart of your child because they don't feel like they fit in. The misery of your wife or husband because there is not enough money to pay all the bills. We often concentrate on needs that are far from us and that we cannot possibly have a great impact on. We need to look to the people around us and see the greater need. The greater need is any need that we can become a part of. Any need we can personally help with.
We all know that there is Great Tribulation in life, but what can we possibly do about it? We need to do, what we need to do. If you are dissatisfied with your life, what good are you to the people you love. Perhaps it is time for some changes to take place in our lives. We are the only ones that change it, no one else will do it for us (although God will help, once you decide to do what is right). If there is no satisfaction in your job, or your life, or your heart. It has a root in the fact that you are concentrating on yourself and overlooking those around you. No longer can we "mind our own business" when we see the sufferings in the people around us. Change you job, change your attitude, change your heart. Whatever it takes to fill you with the kind of joy you once felt as a small child. Do you remember how happy you were then? No stress, no worries, no depression, even though all the sufferings of life surrounded you, you were happy then. What has changed to make you as miserable as you are today? And to be able to watch the sufferings of others and not do something about it? It is time that we all lifted the bliders of affliction that cover our own eyes, so that we may attend to the real needs of others. That is what God created us for, to Love and Care for one another and to give Him glory. To attend to the needs of our loved ones, so that we may be of some value in this world. In other words... If Were No Good On Earth, Then What on Earth Are We Good For?
Your Servant in Christ,
Charles Beason
Life is always about the decisions we make. May the Lord give us the strength to make a lasting impact on the people we are responsible for, and to do what is right, to the people we work with and live with.
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