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As Unto The Lord
By Brian | May 25, 2008
y church has been continuing on in Romans and as usual I get sidetracked into something else. Today’s sermon, on being zealous, from Romans 12:11. Of course as usual I ended up somewhere completely different, Colossians 3:23-24:
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.
Again those loud alarms start ringing in my ears. How often do I get up to go to work with a heavy heart, forgetting that as a Christian it is not my work, or the money it brings, that I am serving? Or you, getting up to change those diapers, or wash those dishes, or go to work, or mow the lawn, or whatever you do - can you truly in your heart see that in those things you are serving Jesus Christ? Wheather it’s the mundane drone of your work each day or the heartfelt sorrow of a difficult marriage or family situation as Christians we don’t go forward each day for our employers, or our spouses, or our children. We see these commitments through for the Lord Jesus Christ.
I doubt I’m the best father, spouse, or employee ever to grace this earth. I certainly have been known to procrastinate, to be lazy, to just not want to follow through on what the Lord has given me. I’ve found, though, over time that if we make the commitment than He will give us the strength to follow through, if we choose to accept it from Him. That’s the problem in the end. Our job, our marriages, those difficulties that we face everyday, those difficulties that He will give us the strength to see through to the end, are the very same difficulties that tie us up inside. That cause us not to reach out as we should to Him.
It is our responsibility to see our commitments through to the end. He gives us the strength we need to see it through. Don’t let the sufferings of this present time rob you of your glorious future. He will give you the strength that you need and He will give it to you just when you need it.
Do everything, from the mundane, to the difficult, to the extreme, as unto the Lord.
Topics: Colossians |