Day 27: Your platform
My husband is a very quiet man who
doesn’t use a lot of words except in his job.
He can then be very animated and purposeful with his words. When we go to a gathering with a large number
of people he doesn’t know, he will be found in a back corner observing the
crowd. I on the other hand am just the
opposite. If we go to a gathering of 500
people I will make sure I talk with at least 495 before I leave! I am the last one at church on Sunday morning
because I will chat with anyone who makes eye contact.
One would think that I would be in a
profession that took lots of time talking with people and building
relationships. In my prior career this
was true. I was a nurse and spent many
hours talking to patients and their families.
Then God called me to be a stay at home mom. I found that there was much time at home
alone with three little boys. We moved a
lot and I didn’t have time to make new friendships in a meaningful way outside
of my hubby’s work.
My husband’s career took him in a totally
opposite direction of his personality.
He is a professional baseball coach and works in front of 20,000-60,000
people on most game nights. He has been
asked to speak on stages in front of small and large crowds, not something he
is comfortable doing. In his Christian
walk he has come to focus on the following scripture. Also a scripture that I have embraced over
the years also.
“Whatever you do, work at it
with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,”
Colossians 3:23
God gives us each a platform, an area
that He places us to show His glory through us.
Your platform may be like mine, a stay at home mom, a large platform
like my hubby or something in between.
That platform is to be used to display all of God’s glory that reveals
the Immeasurably More He is doing through you.
Do you know what your platform is? Where has God placed you to glorify Him and
reveal the Immeasurably More He is doing through you? Are you working as if working for the Lord
and not for man? What can you do to
accomplish this?
