How to Do the Job You Don't Really Want To Do

Devotional: Elizabeth Elliot

Title: How to Do the Job You Don't Really Want To Do

Certain aspects of the job the Lord has given me
to do are very easy to postpone. I make excuses,
find other things that take precedence, and, when
I finally get down to business to do it, it is
not always with much grace. A new perspective has
helped me recently:

The job has been given to me to do.
Therefore it is a gift.
Therefore it is a privilege.
Therefore it is an offering I may make to God.
Therefore it is to be done gladly, if it is done
for Him.
Therefore it is the route to sanctity.

Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God's way.
In this job, not in some other, God looks for
faithfulness. The discipline of this job is, in
fact, the chisel God has chosen to shape me
with--into the image of Christ.

Thank you, Lord, for the work You have assigned
me. I take it as your gift; I offer it back to
you. With your help I will do it gladly,
faithfully, and I will trust You to make me holy.