Disclaimer: The sharing is pure from my personal view; therefore, please don’t take it to be absolute. Thanks.

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Lunch time, two brothers are arguing who should be the one get the apple on the table. Mommy sees it and thinks it is a good opportunity for a spiritual lesson. She said, “You two are brothers, you should learn from Jesus – What will Jesus do (WWJD), if He were sitting with you in your case? I think He will let His brother to have the apple”. The elder brother of the two then said, “Kevin, you now would be Jesus!”

This is an interesting and enlightened story from a Radio broadcast that I just heard recently. There is a mentality of “You do it!” prevails in today’s environment. This mentality is in current church environment also. Oftentimes, we see a lacking in areas of church serving and ministries. Instead of jumping into it ourselves, we would like other people to do it. Isn’t this ironic if we are all in the same family of God?

In recent daily Bible study, we once again read the account of God wanted Moses to lead Israelites out of Egypt, after Moses saw the miracle of burning bushes.  God said to Moses, “Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.  現在去 罷 ， 我必賜你口才 ，指教你所當說的話 (Exodus 4:12)”  What was Moses’ reaction to God? But he said, “O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may send. 摩西說 ： 主阿 ，你願意打發誰 ，就打發誰去罷！(Exodus 4:13)” Moses used all kind of excuses to turn down God. In his mind, he might be thinking, “God, why don’t you do it yourself?”  Isn’t this the same mentality we have regularly?

The other problem we usually have is the mentality of “Only me is doing it”. Last Sunday I shared with some of you Elijah’s good fight. If you continue to read through 1 Kings, you will find that after Elijah performed the great battle against Baal’s prophets to appeal the undecided Israelites, he ran for his life and he complained to God:

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.” 他說，我為耶和華萬軍之 神大發熱心‧因為以色列人背棄了你的約，毀壞了你的壇，用刀殺了你的先知，只剩下我一個人，他們還要尋索我的命‧(1 Kings 19:10)

Can God do it Himself? Absolutely! We know that it is our blessing to be called by Him and can partake His ministry. So, brothers and sisters, the mentality of “You do it” or “Only one left” is a danger to our spiritual life. May our Lord remind us daily to serve Him joyfully….