Daily Archives: February 16, 2009

A stomach bug has been making its rounds through the area. It visited our house on Thursday. And Friday. And Saturday and Sunday. Today, I think (but don’t want to proclaim this too loudly), it’s through. Today we’re dealing with the residual weariness of having a sick house. Because of this, I’m not going to write much today. Rather I’ll just share a verse with you.

“My life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus — the work of telling others the Good news about the wonderful grace of God.”
Acts 20:24 (NLT)

I don’t read the New Living Translation much. In fact, I usually stick to my New American Standard Bible. It’s what we used in college and it’s what I’m used to. But sometimes a different translation, an alternate word choice, can magnify a verse with significance. Lynn Mosher posted this verse in this version on twitter a couple weeks ago. It struck me. I’ve read it a hundred times or more and yet this time it called out to me in a different way. I grabbed one of my notecards (you know those 3 x 5″ things designed for making speeches), wrote it out and taped it my kitchen cabinet. It’s been there ever since. When I’m on the phone or waiting for the next step of meal prep, I pull it down and retrace every word.

What is the work the Lord Jesus has assigned you? Are you using your life to finish it?