Thought For The Week 7 March 2021

Last weekend Andrea, the boys and I had a great time helping Brent & Catherine shifting house.  It’s a big job, but as the saying goes, many hands make light work.

It occurs to me that there are two things that make a day like last        Saturday worthwhile:  There is the satisfaction of the work itself – a job that has a    beginning, a middle and an end. Although it probably doesn’t feel like it has ended for Brent and Catherine! But the work itself is worthwhile.

Then there’s the people you work with and alongside. There is a whakatauki: “He aha te mea nui o te ao?” What is the most important thing in the world? “He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.”  It is the people, the people, the people.

Sometimes our life together as Christians in the church can seem like it is just a     series of jobs, jobs of greater and lesser value. It can especially seem like this when we are tired, busy, or stressed.  When we’re feeling like that it is good to stop.  To pause. To think. To pray.  To ask God to guide us back to his heart.  And where is his heart?  It is with the people, the people, the people.

“Speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.” – Ephesians 4:15-16

Many blessings,

Rory Grant