Do You!

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Been busy going over our kids camp photos, and every time I saw myself in a picture, I laughed. I am not your conventional pastor. I’m in shorts and takkies, or an overall in the majority of the pictures. You’d never know what I did for a living when you saw me playing netball with the teen girls, or chasing after kids with water balloons. But that’s me.

My high school teachers told me I was crazy to waste my brains studying theology when I could literally study in any field I wanted to. Some thought I was wasting my talents seeing that I was good at sports, public speaking, singing and writing, to name a few. I smile to myself from time to time when I find that within following God’s call, none of my talents have gone to waste. I sing my lungs out at church when I lead worship; I public speak almost every day preaching the gospel; I play sports with our youth from time to time; I design wedding invites and event programmes; I write and direct dramas; I write poetry, blogs and books all in aim to advance God’s Kingdom. So what waste were they talking about?

I’m glad I chose to ‘do me’ and follow God instead of people. I’m also glad that within following God, I’m still being me. Of course I dress up and make-up when the occasion calls for it, it’s part of my job description. But I still run around in shorts, I lock myself in my room writing all day and imitate ‘So you think you can dance’ routines when no one’s watching. This makes me so grateful to be serving a God who accommodates me and all of me. Not one who has rules and regulations that drain my personality out of my worship of him. One who isn’t only praised in one prescribed way, but one I come to with song, with spoken-word pieces, with a dance and sometimes with absolute silence and a bleeding heart. Look at David. I love that guy. He couldn’t care less what his wife thought, if he felt like dancing before the Lord half-naked, he went ahead and did it (Read 2 Samuel 6: 14-16). And you don’t hear God complaining. Why? Cause God gave David that dancing talent, that talent to play the harp, that talent to write songs…it’s all God. And when David used what God gave him, God was pleased.

So stop fussing about people, you can never please them anyway. Find yourself in Go and 'do you'!

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