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CHORES

When I was a kid, chores were a regular part of our household responsibilities.

It typically worked by way of pen and paper.

We would head off to school and when we returned from school there would be a piece of paper with all of our chores for the afternoon on it.

  • Do your homework.
  • Bring down the laundry.
  • Make your bed.
  • Vacuum the living room.
  • Etc.

When my parents returned from work, they would look at the list.

If everything was completed - kudos.

If anything was incomplete or unfulfilled - it was back to the chores we went.

Jesus is making a similar statement in Luke 24 and the same idea (ideally) applies to us.

LUKE 24:44

In Luke 24, Jesus has appeared to a group of his disciples in a house/room.

After their initial shock dissipates he says:

44 ...“This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms."

Jesus makes the claim here that he has left nothing undone, no stone unturned, no chore left incomplete. He fulfilled everything.

WE ARE DESIGNED TO FULFILL

It's certainly true that we have not been created and designed to fulfill the same mission that Jesus has (ie - dying for the sins of the world and rising three days later), however, God has made us with desire and a bit of unfulfilled-ness that we might seek and pursue fulfilling God's dream for us in the world.

Paul says it this way in Ephesians 2:10: "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

In other words, we ought to pursue becoming the kind of person God has called us to be and seek to fulfill the things that God has set out for us to do.

For many (if not all of us!) these are often similar:

  • Be shaped more into the image of Christ
  • Find meaningful work that you enjoy and that serves your neighbor
  • Establish a family

The things we are called to fulfill are not often BIG things, but small things that sometimes move us to mountaintops of "big" and through valleys of "small."

But it's all fulfilling.

Be like Christ - seek to fulfill what God has called you to.