Hands on Learning 2

It's only now after more than 50 years of faith and learning that I understand! It doesn't mean you give every experience in your life a religious tag. It's learning about the God who made you and letting Him teach you and change you through everything your hands find to do.

I was just thinking about the verse, "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might as unto the Lord". That's the way I remember it but it's not an accurate quote. Check it out! When I looked it up I was surprised to see that the context for that verse is teaching and learning. I always thought of the verse preceding it in the context of "church."

"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Col. 3: 16-17 NIV) I had a friend once who took that verse pretty literally saying "life with God should be like a musical."

Teaching - doing - learning - worship - teaching -doing- learning - worship. The hyphen is a two-way arrow. Make it into a circle ....

I'm not a Bible student, only a concordance student :-). Here's a question for you Bible students: how big is that word "whatever"?

I'm guessing it's bigger than what we do in church and as big as all the living and learning we do 24/7 - looking for God and His story there. And when we see Him, when we find Him, when we learn more about Him and His story in our day to day, how can we not help but praise Him? We do a little more, we see a little more, we learn a little more, we worship Him even more. How can that love not help but spill over to the people around us?