Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody

There is something that has been weighing on my heart for quite some time now.  I’ve been praying that I would personally respond better to this very thing that God keeps bringing to my attention. I have faith that He will help us all respond to this better…

It’s something that I know God has called each of us to, it’s dare I say one of the most important things in all of Scripture and certainly in this life! But before I share what it is I’d like for us to look at this simple story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody:

“But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.” Psalm 86:15

God is so good, so kind, so compassionate, full of mercy, slow to anger, abounding with love and He is faithful! He is kinder than we currently perceive, generous in showing us an unlimited amount of mercy, so slow to anger and absolutely overflowing with a unfailing covenant love towards us, His children.

We are creatures of habit. Most of us tend to do the same things over and over, we eat the same thing for breakfast, sit in the same seat at church, fall into the same routine day after day. We probably don’t recognize that much of our life is run by routines. But what happens when we encounter something that challenges our routines.  A scripture, perhaps, causes us to look at the life we live and ask, “Am I doing what God is asking me to do here?”

In Matthew 6 Jesus talks about worry, provision, trust and an attitude of the heart. He is inviting us into a deeper relationship: