A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
January 28🌷🌷
..obey in all things.. not with eye service, as menpleasers: but in singleness of heart, fearing God” (Col. 3:22)
As believers of the Lord Jesus Christ whatever job is given unto us at home or outside we should do it heartily. This is a great secret for a believer’s life. Whatever we do we should do it heartily as unto Him (Col. 3:23). In a certain hospital there was a nurse who was a believer and she was very conscientious in her work. After sometime she was put on duty in a new ward, and there also as usual she began to attend to her duties heartily and thoroughly, and kept everything in the ward perfect and clean. On seeing this one patient questioned her as to who was coming to inspect the ward. She replied “No one”. The patient continue to ask her, why then was she working so hard. He remarked that the nurses who had worked in the ward prior to her coming had not been so faithful and thorough in their duties. To this the nurse replied that she was not working to please any human being, but to please only the Lord Jesus Christ Who was her Saviour.
We must learn to willingly accept any kind of job, which the Lord may entrust to us. When I gave myself for the Lord’s service in the year 1932, I promised the Lord that I would make no choice regarding the type of work, food, climatic condition or anything else and that I was prepared to go wherever He would send me. I believed that He would not leave me alone and that was sufficient for me. He goes before us, behind us and with us and gives us strength for any kind of work which we may undertake to complete, as long as it is according to His perfect will and plan.
In the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, among those who came to help Nehemiah there were some who were not qualified as carpenters or masons, but they accepted the work only because it was from God. As a result of it God Himself gave them skill and knowledge that were necessary for this work. On the other hand there were some who did not do the work heartily. We can see from Nehemiah 3:5, that although the nobles did not actually refuse to work, yet they did not work heartily.
During our Holy Convocation gatherings when we ask for volunteers to attend various jobs some come forward and work very happily for the first few days, but as the days goes by they lose interest forgetting the fact that we should take our full share in any work which is entrusted to us in the House of God.
