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by Sabra Dyas
Have you ever been in a garage full of treasures?
Some garages have nice old cars with covers on them. Some have boats, Jet Skis and bicycles. These treasures normally stay covered for protection and emerge only on certain occasions. Otherwise, they grow older and dustier without demonstrating their true power.
However, when the covers are removed and they are brought out of the garage, they come alive. The Model T cruises down the road, while the boat and Jet Ski glide through the water. When they are uncovered and released from the garage, they get put to use. Otherwise, they sit in the garage, gain age, grow rust and eventually don’t work.
If we are not careful, we can have a garage faith. We can inhabit the workplace while never revealing our faith. We can easily cover up who we are in Christ and never talk about our faith in Him.
What would happen if we opened the door to our hearts, let the covers come off and revealed Who we are really living for? What if we even put our faith to work and allowed God to be the one driving our lives? He doesn’t want us to sit covered up like a hidden treasure.
Ephesians 2:10 reminds us: “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
He wants us to come alive, going and doing what we were created to do. You were created to be His handiwork. The Christian faith is not a garage faith; it is alive.
Sabra Dyas, a Free Methodist pastor, is the founder of Main Street Ministries (msministry.org) and the co-author of “Faith at Work” (bit.ly/faithatwork).
Group Discussion:
[1] Do you cover up your faith at work?
[2] What platform has God given you?
[3] What if all Christians let God drive their faith?
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Amen to garage faith statement, it is an accurate saying that many who attend church actually have a greater potential to reach the world for Jesus because of their marketplace influence and presence. The pastor is busy with maintaining the church, the believer and facilities while we lay folks are free to exercise our faith in the market place, which is our ministry given by Him….let the pastor motivate and encourage us in doing our market place ministries without any garages!!!!