Target Lady

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the “Saturday Night Live” sketch involving the Target Lady, but it’s a riot! The character is played by Kristen Wiig (which I’m thinking that you’re going to be hearing about her quite a bit…she’s a new favorite!). Target Lady is a cashier at Target and she’s overzealous about her job. She’s almost annoying chipper about her excitement. In the end, one thing is prevalent: she loves her job.

I was watching a recent sketch with Target Lady and Drew Barrymore, and I was laughing so hard! Then, it hit me! As Christians, we should be as excited about our job as Christians to spread the love of God. While being overzealous has an automatically negative connotation, I’m talking about being persistent in making sure that God’s love is made known.

I know it’s easy to read verses that tell us to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19) and feel energized. Then we go to tell someone that God loves them and we are met with hostility. Our zealous fervor diminishes and we lose heart. It’s in that moment I must remember Phlippians 3:12, “I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.“

I think about Evan, the one person in my life at the time that demonstrated his love for his Savior, and how much he was persistent on showing me the love of Christ. Had he been discouraged by my lack of belief, I may not know Christ as I do today. My behavior then and the behavior of people that reject the message of Christ is explainable in 1 Corinthians 1:18: “For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.“

Much like the Target Lady is excited over her beloved Target, we should demonstrate the love of Christ to a dying world. Think of that person who was most influential in your life that led you to the cross! “For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.’” (1 Corinthians 1:26-31).

You can check out a funny “Terrget Leedy” sketch here…