What-ever.... Just do it!

“What-ever”! We have used and heard this word used in slang so many times over the past few years, that it probably should be on the Lake Superior State University Banished Words List (If you don’t know what that is, feel free to Google it… BTW ‘Google it’ was on that list in 2010). It is a phrase lingo that is used to indicate disdain, indifference or scorn for something. This word in a more noetic world however means: Of any number or kind; all of; the whole of…or in plain English, anything and everything.
Another phrase “Just do it” - Nike’s brilliant marketing slogan has also been bandied around as a way of spurring on the less than enthusiastic….. or less charitably, the ‘no’ as opposed to ‘slowpokes’
If we put these two together, we have the phrase: 'What-ever.... Just do it!' which in modern day lingo probably means - 'I don't care what you do, just do it' Ouch! Very uncaring huh? But a recent discussion with a friend shed a different light on these words for me.
I had quoted a verse of scripture that states: Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might – Ecc 9:10a, and it suddenly it occurred to me that though the emphasis regarding the meaning of this verse has always to my understanding been the degree to which the action is executed, i.e. with all your might, getting to the point of actually getting the ‘whatever’ done, could be a tad intimidating and or challenging or worse still crippling, leading to one being suspended in the never-land of inertia. Just at this point I had a ‘light bulb’ moment (‘aha’ is also on the banned words list) that maybe if I ‘Just do it’, all these things like say…. might as stated in that verse, shall be added unto me so in looking at this verse again later, I read it thus:
WHATEVER (anything and everything) your hand finds to do, DO IT with all your might ….. The ‘might’ which according to scriptures is the supply of the Holy Spirit: according to Ephesians 3:16:
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man
So we may infer that to every action or undertaking in life, there is an ‘us’ part and there is a God part – God’s part is the supply of might in the inner man, and our part is:
What-ever….. Just do it!

And if we just step out like Peter did, we just might find ourselves walking on water……

Shalom!
OluP Mettabel