January 7, 2006

• The Common Task

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  	Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men,
  	knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve. Col. 3:23,24 I love this verse! It always reminds me of a homemaker.  I was thinking back over this past weeks daily work and had to ask myself if I had obeyed this verse by working heartily AS for the Lord? I definitely worked ‘heartily’ but there were so many times throughout the week that my eyes were more on the work than on serving the Lord. When that happens I can be tempted to grumble or complain because the workload suddenly seems overwhelming. We, as homemakers, spend most of our days serving our families. At times, there can be a temptation to feel like a slave if we get our eyes off WHO we are really serving. God has precisely assigned our days which includes each necessary, common duty, no matter how trivial.  Ps. 16:5 Each task we perform in our home can become holy, in a sense, if we see it as an offering of service to the Lord. “The trivial round, the common task, will furnish all we ought to ask; room to deny ourselves, a road to bring us daily nearer God.” { Taken from an old hymn written by John Kieball in the 1800′s}

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