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Our Wrongdoing Thermometers

Our Wrongdoing Thermometers
I was mad at my wife today and was mean to her over the phone.
When I get angry with her, my heart hurts afterward.
I don’t want to ever hurt her heart.
It hurts me to hurt her.
It is not something that happens every day,
but it happens sometimes in every marriage.
What I did today was wrong, and I knew it.
I went before the Lord in prayer and asked Him why
He allowed me to hurt her.
Why didn’t He help me to be nice to her?
I told Him that I don’t want to hurt anyone.
I felt the Lord answer me in my heart that she is
not the only one I hurt today—
there are others.
In a moment I realized how I hurt others without even knowing them.
Let me explain.
What would happen if people in places of authority
decided not to show up to their jobs?
What would happen if an ambulance driver, doctor, nurse, or even a cab driver
did not show up or take their job seriously?
How many people would get hurt?
When I don’t do my job, I am hurting people without knowing it.
As carriers of God’s Spirit on earth, we have jobs to do.
Our job is to love.
We have been given authority to set the captives free.
We have been given the Comforter to comfort those who are heavily burdened.
We have a message of freedom and eternal life that should be spread.
We have been given spiritual medicine for the sick and needy.
We have been given access to the God of the universe
and should help others to have the same access.
Being nice people or being careful that we
don’t hurt anyone is not our only goal.
It is not just about checking the thermometer
of our wrongdoing every day.
Even if we don’t hurt anyone through wrongdoing,
we are hurting many when we don’t do our God-given jobs.
We simply hurt many people when we don’t put
to work the talents the Lord gave us.
Many of us are so concerned with watching the thermometer
of our wrongdoing
that it is all we do all day long.
Many of us have kept the records of our wrongdoing very well.
In some cases we might go to those whom we wronged and ask for forgiveness.
In other cases we might just go to the Lord for forgiveness.
The Lord gave us jobs to do, but many of us are not only late,
but never showed up in the first place.
What about people we never met but still hurt with our lack of responsibility?
How many people have I wronged by not telling them about Christ?
Am I accountable for that kind of wrongdoing?
I have no idea how many people I have hurt by not showing up
on the job the Lord gave me.
Today I realized that I am far guiltier than I could imagine.
It was not just my wife whom I hurt.
Only God knows how many others were hurt by me today.
May the Lord forgive me for hurting so many people.
People are hurting because Satan has many who do his jobs
and take them very seriously.
People in the pornography, drug, and alcohol industries
are taking their jobs very seriously.
Let us take our jobs seriously.
Let us focus not so much on what we might be doing wrong
but what we can do right that will bring a ripple effect of
love and truth into the world.
With the help of technology, TV, and the Internet,
we can comfort, help, and give medicine to the multitudes.
I am not trying to bring shame or fear to myself or to you,
I am trying to allow our hearts to see the truth
about the importance of our callings and jobs on earth.
The Lord is calling us.
Let us answer His call.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.
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