Christian Living

Serving Where We Are

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My Daily Musings-August 17th, 2026

“God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem. But we are finite and He will not call us everywhere. And real needs are not far from us.” C.S. Lewis

I have been trying to serve others more instead of focusing on myself and my trials. I have been praying the last few weeks for more opportunities to serve those around me and to follow the promptings I receive. I have been blessed to notice other people’s needs more. I have been blessed with more service opportunities. My Heavenly Father knows my health needs and He knows how much I can handle. So He is good at tailoring my opportunities to serve others to my needs.

It’s true that some of us might be called to other places in the world to help those in need. But there are many needs among the people around us that we might not know about. If we pray to our Heavenly Father to help us serve those around us we can help, He will provide us with those opportunities. Sometimes serving others might look like just giving them a smile when you see them in church. Other times it might look like watching a toddler while their parents are busy for a few minutes. We need to be sensitive to the Spirit so we can notice the needs of those around us.

Have you ever prayed for opportunities to serve and then noticed more needs around you? What are some simple ways we can serve the people around us?

Reaching Down to Lift Others

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My Daily Musings-July 31st, 2026

I heard this story from Acts 3:2-8 that really resonated with me, even though I had heard it before. Peter and John saw a man who was lame at the gate of the temple, asking alms from people who passed by. Peter told the man to look at them. So the man looked up at Peter and John expecting to receive money from them. Peter told him that he didn’t have any money for him. But he told the man, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” Then Peter reached down, took the man by the right hand, and lifted him up. The man’s limbs immediately gained strength and he leapt for joy and walked with them into the temple, leaping and praising God.

I think that one message we can learn from this story is that we sometimes have to look down and lift up our fellowmen. We are all here to help each other. We are all our Heavenly Father’s children and He loves each one of us very much. He wants us to help one another on our earthly journey. One way we can help each other is by giving each other hope on our hardest days and lifting each other up.

Sometimes when we have a hard day, we need someone to lift us up and we should always be ready to lift and serve others.

Has someone ever “lifted you up” during a difficult time? What did they do that made a difference? How can we better notice those around us who may need hope, encouragement, or a helping hand?

Putting on the Heart of Christ

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My Daily Musings-July 26th, 2026

I really like this scripture in Colossians 3:12. It reads, “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.”

This is from a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to the early Christians in Colossae. In the verses just before this, Paul is asking those Christians to put off the “old man” and put on the “new man”. So in this verse, he is telling them how to do that.

In that society and time period, “bowels” probably referred to the deepest seat of emotions, like we would say now, “I feel it deep in my heart”. So what Paul is teaching us is that we as followers of Jesus Christ need to be more like Him. So we should feel deep in our hearts the qualities and character of Christ for others like mercy, kindness, humility, meekness and longsuffering.

For me, it’s easy to judge others, even when I don’t know them or the situation they are in. So I need to work on being longsuffering towards others, which means “being slow to become frustrated or angry and continuing to love even when things are hard”.

Which Christlike quality in Colossians 3:12 — mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, or longsuffering — do you feel God is inviting you to strengthen right now? What does it mean to you to “put on” the character of Christ each day?