This One Thing

You say well Andy that’s not like church stuff; that’s not like spiritual stuff. Of course it is. God gave you your body. You can’t help anybody without a body. Did you know that? I used to have a seminary professor that said I’ve never seen anybody with a spiritual ministry without a physical body. It’s a good point. There are a lot of things you can’t do without a physical body. Your physical body is part of God’s will for your life and for some of you, you know what your wall is and you’re not paying attention. Listen, it goes to every level of our life. For some of you, for you parents listen, this is what Sandra and I used to do, you need to go in and sit on the bedside by your little kids, you’ve got little kids right now, maybe even infants or little kids that are in first or second grade or getting ready to start elementary school, you need to go sit on their bed and stroke their hair and you need to say out loud right here I’m doing a great work. I’m doing a great work, I’m doing a great work and I cannot come down. And there are a lot of things I could do and there are a lot of things I could be involved with but this is the great work that God has called me to do at this stage of my life and I am not coming down. For those of you with teenagers you need to do the same thing. You need to walk in their room when they’re asleep, it may be late, you may have to set the alarm clock to get in there when they’re asleep and you need to look at those big old bodies in those beds and you’re thinking how in the world did they get so big and you look at them and say this is my great work.

This is the greatest thing I could give my life to. I am doing a great work and I’m not coming down and I’m not going to allow anything to distract me from the privilege I have of investing in these young adults who are going to go on and live longer than me and do things I would never have the potential to do. You’re doing a great work and you can’t afford to come down. Men, that picture you have of your wife or that picture of you have of your wife and your kids sitting on your desk at work, everyday you need to look at it and say I’m doing a great work and yeah there are other trips I could take and yeah there is more money I could make and yeah there are more opportunities I could chase and yeah I could be away from home two or three more nights a week and have other people asking me to do things and I could be busy, busy, busy but right there I’m doing a great work; I’m doing a great work and I cannot come down. And ladies, you need to look at your husband and say he’s a piece of work. I don’t know what ladies say you know, he’s a piece of work, he needs my help, where would he be without me. I don’t know what woman think when they look at us. You probably feel sorry for us. I understand that. But you understand there is a significant, significant role that you play and I don’t have to tell you what it is. You’re smart enough to know what it is but it’s so easy to get distracted.