SubscribeDo you do you?
“Do You.” Those words continue to reverberate in my mind with the cadence of a song, following my pastor’s sermon yesterday on lessons learned when things go your way. While outlining several points about living with success, Pastor Turner urged each of us to understand who God called us to be and to do what God called us to do.
“Be authentic,” she said, using Psalm 1: 1-3 for Scriptual context. “God can do more with you being you than He could with you trying to do what everyone else is doing.”
To be authentic is to be real, to be genuinely who you were created to be. It is knowing that you are “fearfully and wonderfully made” and living your life with the knowledge that the Creator desires His best for you. When we do our best in each of our daily transactions, we glorify God and bless people in ways small and great.
Today, I encourage you also to think about “Do You.” Are you living the authentic life God created you to live? Are you doing today what God called you to do? Do you know what He called you to do? These are questions I ask myself sometimes as I meditate on God’s word.
My own queries today led me to someone whose work I greatly admire. Mother Teresa, who died at age 86, remains in a league of her own. I’m inspired when I read about how this gentle, loving woman allowed God to use her to touch the lives of so many through her work with the poor.
She clearly lived an authentic life and exhibited a Christ-likeness in all her endeavors. She described her call this way in the book, “Mother Teresa, In My Own Words.”
“We all have the duty to serve God where we are called to do so. I feel called to serve individuals, to love each human being. My calling is not to judge institutions. I am not qualified to condemn anyone.
I never think in terms of crowds, but of individual persons. If I thought in terms of crowds, I would never begin my work.
I believe in the personal touch of one to one. If others are convinced that God wants them to change social structures, that is a matter of them to take up with God.”
Fortunately, we don’t have to try to emulate Mother Teresa. The call to “Do You” is specifically and singularly for each of us as we walk in faith.
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