Into The Drudgery

I am now praying for four situations where individuals and couples are waiting on paperwork – documents to be approved, signed, and delivered.   I am praying that these “official papers” will be completed, not lost in the shuffle of a million other cases stacked high on some obscure and forgotten desk.   And in the course, I have been praying for those who process those papers.   Certainly, God’s timing presides over the task at hand, but I think of those who day after day, trudge to work, doing that endless paperwork, thinking “is there any purpose in what I do?”

Yes, it makes a difference.  It bears great significance, even when for all appearances, it feels like an arduous road to nowhere.  Satan’s greatest deceit is “it doesn’t matter,” when indeed God has placed you strategically for His purposes.  It is all in how you look at what you do.  How you view your work is just one of the outcomes emerging from your worldview.  If indeed your basic presupposition is that “all is meaningless,”  well, it is easy to see where attitudes will dwell.   But if you acknowledge that “God is,” your whole life is turned around.  This has nothing to do about wishful thinking or denial of reality, but seeing life through God’s eyes, seeing life (and what you do) from a very countercultural and eternal perspective.  No matter what happens, God is still in control.  There is purpose, meaning and design.  Even in what is viewed as drudgery, God can change the world --  even when we don’t think anyone notices, even when it seems trivial,  everything from decisions in the highest office to what seems to be menial tasks at the bottom of the food chain.  It all makes a profound difference.

“We flag when there is no vision, no uplift, but just the common round, the trivial task,” said Oswald Chambers at the beginning of the 1900s.  “The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God.  Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you.”

Purpose?   Count on it.   God has His ever loving eyes on you.

 

The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me;

Your steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever.

                            Psalm 138.8

 

sorry, I need to go finish the laundry :)