Interruptions as Sacred Service

Serving others is disruptive. It always will interrupt your day, throw off your week and pause your plans.

But that’s what Jesus calls us to. So if you are annoyed by something disruptive like caregiving, children, a friend asking for help — what’s going on inside?

And if you find yourself in a season where these kinds of interruptions are your job, a daily rhythm of sorts know you are truly doing Gods work. Being a mom has made me desire to never want to have a season of life where children are not adding to my rhythm of life. I definitely had a stretch of life in the city where I forgot how magical kids are.

I reread Matthew 25 recently and was reminded of the seriousness of leaning into God interruptions to serve others. Below are the last few verses but I would encourage you to read the whole chapter.

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

Matthew 25:44-46

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