This Is Job For…?

With a meteorite heading to earth and no one to help, you might here the phrase, “This is a job for Superman!”  Then ‘faster than a speeding bullet’, and out from behind the clouds comes the DC comic hero to save the day.  But even without an asteroid heading our way, we still have troubles to deal with and issues we must face.  Who comes to the rescue then?  Here ‘in the real world’ we have things that need to get done.  We say, this is a job for ____________.  When the job (big or small) needs to be done and the only ‘super man’ around isn’t able to ‘leap tall buildings’…what do you do?

Some might say, ‘Anybody can do that, it’s not too hard,’ but when it comes time to do the job we are often looking around for Superman.  Some have been heard to say, “I would but…”  The fact of the matter remains, there is work to be done and a worker needs to do it.  It’s almost as if folks are afraid they’ll be asked to save the planet.  In reality, we just need workers.  Letting the Bible speak (I Cor. 6;9), we can hear God calling us to work “…for we are God’s fellow workers…”.  Also Matthew and Mark both refer to labors in the kingdom (vineyard).  We have work to do, no doubt.  The question remains, who will do the work?

Keith Lancaster’s, Acappella made famous a song that epitomizes many in today’s society.  When a task is to be done you might hear someone say, ‘Anybody could do that…somebody should do that…will anybody do it?’  Unfortunately the response is usually, ‘I would but I’m too busy.’

‘Everybody Said (But Nobody Did)’

CHORUS:
Everybody said that anybody could do The important things somebody should do Everybody knows that anybody could do All the good things that nobody did

1) Well the preacher came to me and said what I ought to do If I wanted to make my religion true He’d do it himself but he really didn’t have the time He said that the duty was mine

2) Well the deacon came by and said give me a hand If you want to be going to the promised land Here is something that I don’t have time to do So I better give it to you
CHORUS:

Well I’m too busy so I tell everybody The work’s got to get done by somebody It could be done by anybody But nobody, nobody, nobody did

Earth hangs in the balance, between life and death.  There’s no rocket of destruction or asteroid headed our way, but we do hang in the balance between good and evil.  Imagine if Clark Kent had observed the threat and said, “That looks like trouble, maybe somebody should do something.”  You might not be a ‘super man’, but you are somebody who can make a difference.  Besides, it just might be that the next task is a job for you.