Why must we continue?
*knock knock knock* a woman in her mid 40's answers the door takes one look at me and snarls "Were not interested!" "Woe woe woe!" I quickly respond before she can fully shut the door on me "You don't even know what I'm here for and your going to shut the door on me?" she glares at me, so I take this as an invitation, "Hi! I'm Wezley, I'm with Youth in Action, Your husband requested a free Final Events DVD (I hand it to her) and I wa..." I'll give it to him" she says curtly as she dismisses me with the closing of her door.
*Sigh* I've been bible working full time since I think around 2007, and before that I have been going door to door since '03 which is when I attended my first Youth For Jesus program (briefly after I became an Adventist). Yet the feeling of "Why even bother" seems to never go away when the large majority of houses that you go to are in no way interested in the bible. "Isn't there something more productive that I could be spending my time on?" I at times ask myself on days like today. I'm all but naturally "out going" and always feel terribly out of place and awkward going door to door knowing that everyone is just dreading for me to get to their house, and even not so infrequently seeing them go inside just before I get to their door and pretend like they are not home. Or the agony of just before I get out of my car to go and visit someone who I have never met before and in all reality who I will be disrupting their busy schedule. Walking up those steps... knocking on the door...and starting all over again. "What are you doing Wezley?" goes through my mind as I walk back down those stairs and get into my vehicle to go to the next person on my list.
Then I kick myself, and I do a psychological body slam to my pity party and I remind myself of all the fantastic people who I have met bible working, doing all this stuff that I despise doing.
Jack, I met him knocking on a random door one day nearing the end of the day in Louisville, KY. He answered his door, looked at me rather suspiciously and I went right into my survey. Months later this ex-prison inmate. Hard core tattooed, manly man was on his knees with me bawling as we studied salvation and he was praying asking God to forgive him.
Norm and Adella, a 10 and 12 year old. I to met them door to door. Their mom was raised an Adventist but since has fallen away. I met them a few weeks ago and they came to church with me for the first time this last Sabbath and fell in love with it. They will be bringing their mom back next Saturday for church!
Jeff, An alcoholic and his wife whom I met doing visitations. He came to me in a drunken stupor asking me for money, I said no and I sat with him that day for hours talking to him and his wife. We studied many times in just a month or two, and they stopped smoking and drinking because of what they learned in the bible.
I could go on and on about the people that I have met door to door, young and old, tall and short, from a black women in the projects to a Muslim family in a mansion. As I think of how much I don't like doing some of the things that it takes for me to meet these people i remind myself that if I don't go out to find these people when who will? Yes, I will meet so many people who are not interested in the least to learn about God, but yes, I trust that God will once again show me those few precious people who He would have me reach. I then remember that I have the best job in the world, its not bible working, but I'm a servant of God. If you haven't done something for God that takes you out of your comfort zone, whats stopping you from reaching those whom God would have you reach?
"This generation is the only generation that can reach this generation"
*Sigh* I've been bible working full time since I think around 2007, and before that I have been going door to door since '03 which is when I attended my first Youth For Jesus program (briefly after I became an Adventist). Yet the feeling of "Why even bother" seems to never go away when the large majority of houses that you go to are in no way interested in the bible. "Isn't there something more productive that I could be spending my time on?" I at times ask myself on days like today. I'm all but naturally "out going" and always feel terribly out of place and awkward going door to door knowing that everyone is just dreading for me to get to their house, and even not so infrequently seeing them go inside just before I get to their door and pretend like they are not home. Or the agony of just before I get out of my car to go and visit someone who I have never met before and in all reality who I will be disrupting their busy schedule. Walking up those steps... knocking on the door...and starting all over again. "What are you doing Wezley?" goes through my mind as I walk back down those stairs and get into my vehicle to go to the next person on my list.
Then I kick myself, and I do a psychological body slam to my pity party and I remind myself of all the fantastic people who I have met bible working, doing all this stuff that I despise doing.
Jack, I met him knocking on a random door one day nearing the end of the day in Louisville, KY. He answered his door, looked at me rather suspiciously and I went right into my survey. Months later this ex-prison inmate. Hard core tattooed, manly man was on his knees with me bawling as we studied salvation and he was praying asking God to forgive him.
Norm and Adella, a 10 and 12 year old. I to met them door to door. Their mom was raised an Adventist but since has fallen away. I met them a few weeks ago and they came to church with me for the first time this last Sabbath and fell in love with it. They will be bringing their mom back next Saturday for church!
Jeff, An alcoholic and his wife whom I met doing visitations. He came to me in a drunken stupor asking me for money, I said no and I sat with him that day for hours talking to him and his wife. We studied many times in just a month or two, and they stopped smoking and drinking because of what they learned in the bible.
I could go on and on about the people that I have met door to door, young and old, tall and short, from a black women in the projects to a Muslim family in a mansion. As I think of how much I don't like doing some of the things that it takes for me to meet these people i remind myself that if I don't go out to find these people when who will? Yes, I will meet so many people who are not interested in the least to learn about God, but yes, I trust that God will once again show me those few precious people who He would have me reach. I then remember that I have the best job in the world, its not bible working, but I'm a servant of God. If you haven't done something for God that takes you out of your comfort zone, whats stopping you from reaching those whom God would have you reach?
"This generation is the only generation that can reach this generation"
posted by Wezley at
7:37 PM
2 Comments:
the beauty of uncertainty!!!you are right you have the best job in the world!there have been times when rejection kept me going then I met a really really good /respectable person and suddenly all the rejections did not bother me one bit anymore...evryday is a new day though...we are getting closer to His second coming! more power!!!!!!!!!!
That is great Wezley....thanks for the encouragment! : )
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