Hardworking Followers

How diligent are you in the work that is placed before you?

Did you know that God expects us to do our very best even in every task placed before us?

Sometimes we deceive ourselves when we tell ourselves that we will only perform excellent work once we get that promotion or once we get that "perfect" job.

But the exhortation for today is that we embrace every small challenge and complete the task diligently!

The small tasks matter.

Ask Joseph... 

He believed in "being faithful in the little things." His daily work was so on-point. Wherever he was positioned, his hard-working, diligent, meticulous self brought glory to God. And that was his motivation.

So often we choose to be diligent only so that we can get that promotion, or only so that people can give us praise. But that shouldn't be the reason we do it.

We serve a God of order and hard work.

Look at the Creation account. God exerted so much energy every day when He created the universe. Light energy flowed forth from His very being into the universe when He said, "Let there be light." When He made the blade of grass, He was very meticulous - making sure that each blade had a symmetrical line run through it. Or when He made the peacock's feathers - His attention to detail was superb, right?! 

When we don't do our best at work, school or home, we are misrepresenting the character of God. We show others that the God we believe in isn't hard-working and diligent.

We are called to do our best through His strength so that others may look and say, "We have seen that the Lord is with you. Tell us more about this God of yours."

It's not about you and I receiving glory and praise and honor...

It's about God receiving ALL the praise, ALL the honor and ALL the glory!

Challenge: Be faithful in the smallest of tasks that are laid before you today. Remember that it takes small building blocks to make a mansion. Be diligent in "laying down every brick." Focus on giving God glory.

God will definitely bless your efforts in whichever way He deems best. Whether if it's giving you that promotion, or whether it's someone's encouraging words. But ultimately, we should do it so that one day we can hear the words from our Creator's lips:

"Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Matthew 25:23