May13

“Will you rub my back?”

“Yeah as long as you rub mine.”

Have you ever had one of those conversations?  I know I’ve had many of them.  At times Karissa will ask me if I will rub her back, and honestly I have to admit that at that moment I’m thinking “Yeah, if you rub my back.”  But what does that attitude say about me?  Does it display the kind of love God calls me to have for my wife?  Does it display sacrificial love?  Certainly not!

In Luke 14:12-14 Jesus says something very interesting to a man who invited him to a banquet.  Check it out:

“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.  But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you.  You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Kind of interesting huh?  When was the last time you did something for someone who couldn’t repay you?

On May 21-22 our students will be participating in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine.  This is an event where our students go 30 hours without eating to raise awareness for world hunger and seek to raise money to help “feed the hunger.”  This is a great opportunity for them to do something for someone they don’t know.  Someone that can’t repay them.  Someone that they won’t meet this side of heaven. 

So what can you do today for someone who won’t be able to repay you?  Maybe it will be as little as giving someone you love a back rub without expecting anything in return.  Maybe it’s something bigger.

Tommy