Do Everything

Steven Curtis Chapman - Do Everything


Yes, yes, I am blogging about a Steven Curtis Chapman song. I am ashamed. No matter what you think about him, he does what some "Christian" artists don't, and that is tell the Gospel  straightforward. Anyway, I digress.


Anyway, the second verse is the one I will be talking about. It talks about two people, with two completely different lifestyles. One being at the higher end of white collar, the other at the lower end of the blue collar spectrum. The lyrics are as follows


You may be that guy with a suit and tie
Maybe your shirt says your name
You may be hooking up mergers, cooking up burgers
But at the end of the day 
Little stuff, big stuff, in between stuff 
God sees it all the same
While I may not know you
I bet I know you wonder sometimes, does it matter at all?
Well let me remind you, it matters just as long


As you do everything you do to the glory of the one who made you
'Cause he made you to do 
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
Tell the story of His grace, with every move that you make
In everything that you do.


Basically, he is saying that it doesn't matter if you are a chemical engineer (you know who you are), a fraud investigator (you know who you are), or just a meat cutter (you know who... nevermind, that's me). You have a place here on Earth to do God's will. Everybody has different gifts that can be used for the glory of God. Some people think that one set of skills is more important or more admirable than another. Isn't it God who grants everybody their gifts? So how can one set of talents that God has granted to someone be better or worse than another set of gifts that God has granted someone?


1 Corinthians 12:12-20 says the same thing:


The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body - whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free - and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.


We are all called to spread the Gospel of Christ around the world. You may think that because you are not a priest/pastor/minister/whatever, that you cannot tell people about Christ and spread the good news. Not true. In fact, a wise priest (you know who you are) once said that a priest is not above the people in the parish, that he is there to serve the people, just as Christ came to serve us. What are your spiritual gifts? I don't know, but they  sometimes parallel what you are good at normally. Maybe you're good at teaching others, perhaps teaching a Bible study at church or in your home would be up your alley. Perhaps you are good at talking to people you barely know, volunteering at a local nursing home could be a good fit for you. Perhaps you are good at sitting in front of the computer going to various social networking and Anglican related websites for hours on end. START A BLOG!


Regardless of your gifts or your Bible knowledge, God does have a plan for you and the gifts that He has given you. Keep in the word and pray often. Pray that God will help reveal His gifts that He has given you, for His glory. And always, do everything for the glory of God.


Amen.