Ask yourself this question: Do I need a fish symbol for people to know I am a Christian at work?

I love this cartoon depiction. I can honestly say that I have had this conversation with Jesus in the past, when I just didn’t “get it” yet. I didn’t understand what it truly meant to be a Jesus Follower. I believed if I put a fish on my marketing material, advertised in the Christian directory, wore a button or had a Jesus bumper sticker on my car, that people would know I was a Christian and that would entice them to be one, too. HOWEVER, the opposite was really true. Since my behavior was at times in contradiction to what most people expected out of a Christian, the decorations only emphasized the hypocrisy in my own life and drove people away from Jesus, not towards Him.

Friends – today just let me bottom line this. Jesus summed up the law and the prophets in this short paragraph.

Matthew 22: 37-40 37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’[e] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[f] 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

Here’s a few of the hard questions to ask yourself.

1. Why did God place me here on this earth, living where I live, doing the work that I do, with the people I do it with?

2. What gifts talents and abilities have I been given that are helpful in ministering to my neighbor?

3. What am I doing now, to minister to the least of these in unison with the Spirit of God?

I think you can see it now. The world is a mess. So much anger, frustration, hurt, calamity, disease. A mess. That is what sin does – steal, kill and destroy. It is why iWork4Him exists.

The people who are hurting so badly, every color of skin, every nationality, men and women everywhere are overwhelmed by the hopelessness of life…without Jesus.

Have you ever had such a bad day at work, that you just want to quit your job and walk out? You know, just pack up your stuff and leave?

For us Jesus followers, it’s time to realize the book of Revelation has come alive. A disease impacted our world in a matter of days. A worldwide vaccines embedded with medical tracking chips is a real possibility. In one week the world was changed. We are slowly opening up to a new world. For some it is a world based on fear, and for others new awareness. What has God been telling you?

Soon we will get back to our work space, and socializing. We are ready to renew friendships face to face with coworkers and employees and friends at church. It’s time to live but let’s remember to celebrate the valuable lessons we have learned in the last 10 weeks.

Have you been paying attention to all of the NEW things that have begun around you the past several months?

• New ways to buy your groceries

• New ways to have business meetings

• New ways to “gather” for a holiday dinner

• New ways to hold a conference

• New ways to pick up dinner from the restaurant

• New ways to “do church”

• New ways to use a manufacturing plant to make essential product

One of my favorite memories as a young mom occurred on May Day. My best intentions actually materialized when the kids and I created little May baskets full of flowers and successfully delivered them to our neighbors. I always loved May Day because it was like playing “legal” ding-dong-ditch. We would put the basket of flowers on the porch of a neighbor, ring the doorbell, and then run away. The kids would giggle as we hid, trying to watch as the door opened to find a fresh surprise on the doorstep.

Jesus prayed the passage in John 17:20-23 out loud in front of a crowd. He was driving home a point. Unity among Christ Followers would demonstrate the reality of His presence in the world. Martha and I have made a marketplace observation, Christ Followers at work are unified in a common cause…