Every day we have the power to do great things for God’s glory, even if this power lies in doing the mundane things. For teenagers, this sometimes is doing our school. For grownups, this is cleaning the house and going to work. For the longest time I have thought that these things were nothing more than mundane, insignificant things, but over this summer God has shown me something.
We can all look back on what we would say when people asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. The people asking the question thought it more of a joke because they knew that hardly ever do people grow up to do what they said they would as children. Why is this the case? As a child I wanted to be a missionary to China. After this choice for a career wore off, I thought it would be good if I did something with more affect on the world, so I set my sights on becoming the president. There is nothing wrong in these ambitions in and of themselves. Now that I am a teenager, I am having to look at what type of job I do want to have. Maybe it would be better if I just stayed home and cooked, that way I am ready for Prince Charming. Or should I get myself a job because one never knows when prince charming might come around? If I do get a job, should I look at one that will get me lots of money so that I can be secure in my old age? It should also be a job that I like because I would not want to get bored. These are some of the first things that run through our minds when it comes to picking a job.
These are reasonable questions to ask, but there is also something missing.... In what kind of job can I most effectively serve the Lord? This question does not mean that you have to become a missionary or a pastor. God needs good lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers, house wives, and any thing else you can think of. The point that I am a trying to make is, "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." I am sorry to say, teenagers, at this point in time all of us have been called to do school.
Getting a job that gives God the most glory takes a lot of thought and is a very large process. If that was the only thing that we had to do to serve God, life would be a whole lot easier. The verse "Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1Cor.10:31) makes it very clear that even the small things count. The sad thing is that seeing our task as serving God even in the small things, does not make the task any easier.
As children we do not want to do the little things like cleaning our room, being nice to our sister, and obeying our parents. We cannot see the value in these tasks. As teenagers we do not see the value in school, a menial job, or in obeying our parents. I cannot speak for grownups, because I have not reached that part of my life, but if you are a grownup and you are reading this, I am sure you can fill in the blank. All the jobs that we call little in life are in fact important, because if we never learned to do the little things, God could not trust us with the big things.
Project: Each day I will ask God to show me his will for that day. I will also put a hundred and ten percent into every job that I do.
The purpose of the projects that will follow each blog are more to help me than you. They are goals that I have laid out for myself to better my walk with God. You are invited to do them with me and to keep me accountable on the result-- good or bad. Next month when I post there will be a subparagraph that will say followup which will be the results of my project.
