My Place

Each family member has a certain place at the dinner table. I don't really know how that came to be, but it's the same in most families. When a place is empty at dinner time, you still sit ... in "your place." I suppose food just doesn't taste right when you sit in the wrong place!

Why do we wiggle and squiggle as if to get out of the place God put us? Some people don't seem to be happy in any place, always sad & whining, wanting another job, another house, another family, another life! Oh, yes, we've all been in that wiggle-squiggle mode at one time or another. To each of us God has given a particular task in a particular place: "Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are laborers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." (1 Corinthians 3:8,9). It's clear God is counting on us to do our assignments in our places. Why not settle down, acknowledge our present place of service (circumstances & all), and do our part for God's Kingdom. He's assigned His work to us where we are, and He's counting on us to joyfully serve Him in our rightful places.

Is your place a small place?
Tend it with care -- He set you there.
Is your place a large place?
Guard it with care -- He set you there.
Whate'er your place, it is not yours alone,
But His -- Who set you there. -- John Oxenham