Found Faithful

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving holiday. I sure did. Both of the kids/ spouses spent Wednesday evening with us. We had a great time together. Dale fixed a traditional Thanksgiving meal with a big, fat turkey, dressing and the whole nine yards! Each of us shared special words of gratitude, I read Scripture, and we prayed together. And then we ate! It was a real feast.



STAND BACK!



It’s always been my job to carve the turkey. In the photograph you’ll see that I’m about to get to work. Which brings me to “the knife.” We have this electric knife we got as a wedding gift—35 years ago. I know, I know. I look much too young to have been married 35 years! Even when new, this knife was an ordinary appliance—nothing high tech or high end.

But… it got the job done. And still does.

My electric knife doesn’t get many “Wows!” But it sure can make the turkey look good.

And as I cleaned it up to put it away, I thought, “I want to be like that knife.” Not the latest and greatest—and the packaging is starting to look a little rough. But I want to continue to be faithful, useful in serving the Lord. I realize I’m not describing established fact; I’m describing my aspirations. My problem is that my ego wants to get in the way.

But I certainly aspire to be useful. The resurrected Christ said to the church in Smyrna, “Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life” (Rev. 2:10). That’s how long my knife is going to be faithful. That’s how long I want to be faithful.