All Part of the McUniform

My favorite thing about the drive thru is the fact that you never know what will happen next. This afternoon a mom and teenage daughter battled it out over a quarter pounder today with the entire McDonald’s headset-wearing crew as their witnesses. (Note: If you are going to have an emotional breakdown, don’t do it while waiting in line at Mickey D’s, we WILL laugh at you) At one point during the day, no one responded to my “Welcome to McDonald’s, how may I help you,” call when a car pulled up to the speaker. A few minutes later an elderly man pulled up to my window and declared that he just “forgot” to order. Poor guy.

Although my new friends Cheryl, Jency, and I get a kick out of the silly things people tend to do in the drive thru, we have already witnessed a situation or two that really made us think. And I’m talking the kind of thinking that has nothing to do with what kind of sauce you want with your McNuggets.

Yesterday a couple pulled up to my window to pay for their lunch. After giving them their change, they asked me how much the bill was for the van behind them. They then proceeded to pay for the young couple’s lunch that followed them in line.

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” –Colossians 3:12

That couple showed true compassion, kindness, and humility by making the day of the recipients of their gift. I have no idea if their purpose to show God’s love with the couple behind them through a random act of kindness, or just simply make the world a better place by paying forward that kindness to someone else. Regardless, this couple can teach us something about what the wardrobe of our character should look like.

The fact of the matter is, Christ loved us enough to sacrifice his life for our sins. After accepting his gift of salvation, our responsibility is to please him by “clothing ourselves” with the traits that encompass his character (compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience). If we go “all in” to making those traits the definition of our lives, they will compel us to constantly search for ways to serve those who surround us every day.

Letting those traits define our lives might not be in the form of buying someone else’s lunch at McDonald’s, but the opportunities to put them into practice are endless. Strive to “clothe yourself” with the same character as Jesus.

McQuestion 2: How will you let compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience be present in your life?

Stay tuned for a personal account of the “Great Frozen Strawberry Lemonade Incident of 2011.”