Cooperating With God

The fields are abundant with Goldenrod! I love driving the roads during this season of the year. Fields, yards and the roadside are alive with yellow! There is sunshine everywhere I look!

 

"What an honor we've been given to cooperate with God as He works in the world?"

Lisa Beamer

 

I read those words one morning recently in The One Year Women in Christian History devotional. Of course, Lisa Beamer is the widow of Todd Beamer who heroically worked with other men to abort the hijacker's plans to attack a national target on that fateful day of September 11. 2001.

Her words stopped me. I've never heard it said quite that way. We're cooperating with God as He works in the world. Yes, that is what we're doing.

It is an honor, one in which we don't deserve. For all God has done and is doing for us, we are privileged to be able to do something for Him. That He uses us in any way He wants to accomplish His purpose is amazing.

                              Queen Anne's Lace mixes with Goldenrod for a lovely display! 

 As it says in Romans 12, we all have different gifts to use for His Glory. Every gift is vital and needed. Whatever your gift(s) is, do it with all your heart. Whether big or small, if it's done for God's Glory, it is BIG indeed!

 "He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment."

John Wesley, 1703-1791

Beamer spoke to the graduating class of Wheaton College in Illinois. "This is how we know redemption: when we see broken things made whole; when what's been discarded is restored to its rightful place; when those in peril are brought back to safety; when a path of restoration becomes clear; when love shines in the place that's been starving for it." 

Beamer's final question was: "What is becoming whole again on your watch? What is being healed through your influence? How is God redeeming His creation by way of your life?"

Cooperate with God? There's no question. Always. There could be no fuller life experience than to use your gifts for God.

 "What we think of, what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."

John Ruskin 1819-1910

                                        Joe Pye Weed is also lovely at this time of the year.

Always remember, Little Is Much When God Is in It. Sing the chorus!

"Little is much when God is in it,

Labor not for wealth or fame;

There's a crown and you can win it,

If you'll go in Jesus' name.

 

Second verse:

"Does the place you're called to labor

Seems so small and little known?

It is great if God is in it,

And He'll not forget His own."

 

Words: Kittie J. Suffield 1884-1972

Music: Dwight Brock, 1907 -