Let God work from the inside out.
| posted 1/30/2009
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Any task you have to do—whether it's conducting a meeting, invoicing an order, cleaning someone's bathroom, or taking a patient's blood pressure—can be done with many different attitudes. What's in it for me? When do I get to go home? How can I help the other person? The outward words and actions matter, but not as much as what's in your heart.
It helps to be aware of what you're here on earth to do: to make peace between God and other people, to bring them together, to reconcile the world to God (2 Corinthians 5:18, 19). As you work in any kind of job, ask yourself how you can help someone get a clearer picture of God's love. And you can enjoy God's company while doing the task. It's not so much the specific task you do as the heart with which you do it. A peacemaking, reconciling heart doesn't give itself easily to evil thoughts, lies, and insults. Instead it makes peace, and puts forth what is right, in a loving way. (See also 1 Samuel 14:1-15; Ecclesiastes 2:24-26; Matthew 4:18-22.)
Good Words to Remember:
Those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart. Matthew 15:18
Today's Challenge:
Is your heart in your job? Why, or why not?
Copyright 2001 by the author or Christianity Today International/Christian Bible Studies.
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