Good Works

"We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."  -Ephesians 2:10

Lilias Trotter, missionary in Algiers around the turn of the 20th century, wrote:  "A bee comforted me very much this morning concerning the desultoriness that troubles me in our work.  There seems so infinitely much to be done, that nothing gets done thoroughly.  If work were more concentrated, as it must be in educational or medical missions, there would be less of this--but we seem only to touch souls and leave them.  And that was what the bee was doing, figuratively speaking.  He was hovering among some blackberry sprays, just touching the flowers here and there in a very tentative way, yet all unconsciously, life--life--life was left behind at every touch, as the miracle-working pollen grains were transferred to the place where they could set the unseen spring working.  We have only to see to it that we are surcharged, like the bees, with potential life.  It is God and His eternity that will do the work.  Yet He needs His wandering, desultory bees!"

I am grateful for the worker bees that helped along the way to bring me to the Lord.