I brought my lunch to work today and forgot a fork. I went downstairs and grabbed a three plastic forks and two spoons. The thought came to mind, “Perhaps you shouldn’t use the utensils unless you buy something.” For some reason, I didn’t think it was a big deal. They were mere plastic utensils. So, I got the utensils. I saw Marcus in the hallway. He said, “Hi.” I said, “Hi.” I was pretty fast in getting the utensils and was able to catch up with him and another guy in the elevator. In the elevator, Marcus said, “That was fast. What did you do get some forks? Using the cafeteria utensils for your own personal use?” I thought to myself, “You’ve got to be kidding. Should have stayed put at my desk.” In my infinite wisdom I replied, “I buy enough downstairs in the cafeteria that I think they can afford a few utensils.” I also said, “If I was using the utensils for my kid’s birthday party that would be different.” Or would it?
Now, I was back at my desk thinking about this. The Holy Spirit was actually dealing with me about this. Now, I asked Him, “What should I do?” Funny how now I adhere. I heard, “Go down stairs and put back the utensils.” My reply was, “Are you serious?” I heard it again three times. So, I got up and went down stairs. My motive is my witness of Christ. I truly wanted and desired to do the right thing since it seems I probably made an ill-advised choice.
The reader now may think I am crazy, but everyone’s convictions are different. I was not under condemnation, but like I said my desire and will is that my light shine with purity, sincerity, and authenticity. I do not want my light to have a flicker of hypocrisy. Jesus did not walk on a tightrope everywhere, but freely walked in His love.
Okay, so I am walking ready to put the utensils back and get there to do it. The thought came to mind, “Don’t do it. You don’t have to do it. That’s enough.” People were everywhere in the cafeteria. I did not hesitate on with this choice. I walked away and this thought came to mind,
“MY WILLINGNESS MAKES YOU RIGHTEOUS.”
It echoed and I reiterated it to myself over and over.
It was His willingness in me taking me back to the plastic utensil repository. I was walking in faith. In His faith. It seems His will and mine were the same. When I heard the words, “My willingness makes you righteous” it was then I realized it was Him in me and not just me.
Paul says in Phil. 3:9, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:”
His willingness makes me righteous. By His will, I am the righteousness of God.
Heb. 8:10, “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”
Heb. 10:7, “Then I said, ‘Here I am-it is written about me in the scroll- I have come to do your will, O God.’”
Heb 10:9, “Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.”
Heb. 10:10, “And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
