A disapointing report card

The message tonight was on discipleship which was on target for me, because I've been thinking about that recently.

I had posed the question to myself a couple weeks back, "What does God want me to do?" And the answer I got back was, "be one of his disciples." When I look at what I've done with my life, compared to the twelve, its not very impressive. While there's some leway on how I go about interacting with the world (given my own skills and talents), the end results should be people knowing God's love due to my actions.

So far not much to show for it.

Part of my new focus is outside of my comfort-zone. When looking to help God, I now look beyond my own family, a few close friends, and the contacts I have at Church. My work needs to touch more people, and help knit the community closer together. This is where my metalworking stuff is coming in handy actually, as there are a lot more people around here that like to stick bits of steel together than there are ones that spend all day designing C++ classes (go figure).