Day 8 - Giving back to Gee Oh Dee.

Sup sup 7-up!

how's everyone doing?! It's half price tuesday at Gelare today, and I can't find any gelare's to go to eat my waffles. =(. But its ok. The Lord gives us half price tuesdays, he too can take it away. KIDDING!


Anyway, today's devotion is about what we can give back to God. It's something we don't really think about much as we carry on with everyday life. Because so often we are caught up with our daily lives and being happy, that we forget who provides us with all these happiness! We live in a rat race of a society, where everything is about me Me ME!!! But so often we are so caught up in this rat race where we want to get something out of everything, but we also give nothing to God!

The story about my sister was something that came to me as I recalled those incidents with her. By the way, she shares her food with me now....She even offered me a chicken McNugget the other day! WOOHOO! Anyway, its pretty much like our relationship with God. He is our Jehovah Jireh and provides us with everything in our life. Yet when it comes to giving back to God, we are so hesitant to give Him anything.

And we're not even talking about money here, though how many of us tithe back to God part of our allowance/pay? This even refers to our time and effort. God gives us all the time in the world and listens to our prayer, but how willing are we to even give God 20 mins a night to talk to Him? (Good that you now have given Him 10 mins to do this devotion!)

Or to take it even further, we need to remember that He has called us to be His disciples, so as His disciples, we need to serve Him in ministry and in whatever way we can. I'm very sure He has placed great gifts in all of us, every single one of us have a gift, but how can we use it to pay God back for it?

Thats a question i'd like to challenge you to think back upon tonight. How can you serve God in the YM or in the church?

There are many various ministries in our YM and church to serve in! Next time we hold an activity, see how you can help or even just turn up for it with some friends! Cos giving back to God also means bringing more people to Christ! For those who can sing or play a musical instrument, join the worship team! For those who are good with computers, the 11.15 service needs some display/powerpoint coordinators! For those who are creative, we need youths to help paint banners and design things in time to come! We're always putting a shout out for help in certain areas. Next time we do, I'd like to challenge you to participate and join it and give back to God for the blessings He has poured out on you!

xoxo
Hernshung

P.S I came across this verse thanks to Bono. Watched a clip of his performance and he read this verse in one of his concerts to like 80,000 people in a huge stadium. And I was like 0.0! He didn't just do that!!!!