Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Why Satan Loves Big Feet Theme of the Week: Serving with a Passion Thursday, March 18, 2004
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Men of IntegrityMarch/April 2004Why Satan Loves Big FeetTheme of the Week: Serving with a PassionThursday, March 1872
Key Bible Verse: "But the servant who received the one bag of gold dug a hole in the ground and hid the master's money for safekeeping" (Matthew 25:18). Bonus Reading:Matthew 25:14–30
While a pro basketball player was being interviewed, the conversation turned to the size of his feet. He took off a shoe and had the interviewer hold one of his up against it. The player, whose shoe dwarfed the interviewer's shoe, joked, "You should have seen the size of the box it came in. Somebody could have lived in that thing!"
I began to think of ways we use shoeboxes, such as places for hiding things. A friend of mine had such a shoebox. She'd secretly been writing short stories, but stuffed them out of sight in a shoebox. Eventually she allowed me to read one. Well-crafted, it wonderfully demonstrated the grace of God. Yet it had been confined to the darkness of a cardboard box where its powerful message benefited no one.
Countless God-inspired drawings, crafts, and sheets of music and writing are tucked away under beds and on the closet top shelves—exactly where Satan wants them. He must love shoeboxes, especially those for big feet!
God's given each of us gifts and talents to be used for His glory, not hidden. Let's dust off our shoeboxes and boldly use our abilities to reach and encourage others.
—Jeff Friend
Thought to Apply: It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
—Alvin Toffler (futurist)
My Response: A God-given ability of mine I'll explore putting to work for Him is …
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