Historically Speaking, the Lord Has Asked His People to
Do the Following Things[1]:
1. Change jobs
2. Become a missionary to Africa
3. Support their children being missionaries in Africa
4. Go back to school
5. Quit a job to stay home with the kids
6. Sell a house
7. Tithe instead of buying a vacation home
8. Sell the vacation home so they can tithe
9. Build an ark
10. Eat broccoli
11. Home school the children
12. Take a pay cut at a new job
13. Take care of elderly parents
14. Teach a class
15. Move to that neighborhood
16. Talk to the neighbors
17. Volunteer with that ministry
18. Invite their kids’ friends over to the house
19. Start a prayer group
20. Lead his people out of Egypt
21. Become foster parents
22. Go to Ninevah
23. Have a baby
24. Adopt a baby
25. Give birth to an alien baby (okay, I made that up)
26. Get off the couch
27. Save the Jews
28. Start a church
29. Change churches
30. Start going to church in the first place
31. Get healthy
32. Lead the Girl Scout Group
[1] Dear Lord, Please note that I am not interested in doing many of these things because they are hard and uncomfortable. Also, the pay is often atrocious and people will think I’m a wacko. Amen.