Just

So many people like me label ourselves as “just” children’s workers or youth workers. God wants us to be more than just that single label that we are known to be doing.

We can so easily be labelled as the person who always puts the chairs away after church or the person who always provides good meals for Alpha or for other public events. Where we are one of the few people who do it we are always associated with that specific title or label


We have gifts that God wants us to explore we just need to test them to see if they are what god wants us to have. Until we try them we don’t know if God can use them for his glory.

Once certain people always do it no one else seems to realise that the more of us who do it the less pressure on others to constantly do it. This can sometimes affect people’s self esteem knowing that they are “Just” that person. When looking “just” up in the dictionary it comes up with only, simply and barely. This means that we can be sometimes the only person who does it.

If all people were not labelled as “just” it would make some things simpler and other do not feel pressured to be relied upon more often and others could help out to make the job seem that little bit smaller.

When we rely on those certain people more often they will soon start to wear out and over time they will become exhausted. This will then mean you will lose those valuable people who help every time. More often than ever some people who help on a regular basis and say thank you for your help know how to appreciate what they have done to help out. But sometimes we forget about how small saying thank you is to someone.

So I would like to thank anyone who has helped me in my job, carer on anywhere else. What would I do without your help I do not know I would be merely struggling along. So I challenge you to say thank you to anyone who helped you in your life and not thought to say thank you after. It does not take much as we so easily forget as I said above those two simple words can make someone feel so much more valued in what they are doing and not feel they are not noticed.

God bless you as you read this.