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This is What I Figure
Well, I’m feeling much better now. I don’t spring out of bed or anything – but I’ve never done that so I’d say I’m back to normal.
I have my ‘to do’ list and marked THREE things off of it just today!
I don’t know what made the difference though. I’m not feeling particularly inspired or energetic. I just know that things need to be done whether I particularly feel like it or not. What I figure is that it takes a certain amount of humility (a lot more than I have on my own) to do things you need to do even if you don’t want to. Like dishes and general housecleaning. Not my favorite things but Colossians 3:23,24 say, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”
Whatever we do?! So I can clean house, do laundry, gather tax documents, and schedule appointments with all of my heart because it is the Lord Christ I am serving. Well, that gives EVERYTHING I do a purpose. Remember, I said I didn’t just want to be BUSY. I wanted to be BUSY with a PURPOSE. Well, I always am. That’s what the Bible says.
How exactly do household chores serve Christ? I don’t know. You’d have to ask someone much smarter than me. But what a verse to keep in mind when tasks aren’t our cup of tea or when they don’t give us a warm, fuzzy feeling. Just the fact that our Lord is watching is enough, isn’t it?
Well, for me today, it is. And for those days when I long to be DOING something USEFUL I’ll remember this verse and commit all my ways to God realizing just Who I am serving.