Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as if working for the Lord, not for man. Colossians 3:23
Today is laundry day and instead of happily tossing clothes into the washer, I am sitting on my bedroom floor and trying not to be overwhelmed. Crazy hot temps in the 80’s over the past week (and my general dislike of laundry) has put me behind in my chores and I’m faced with lots of dirty clothes. Even if I got started at a reasonable hour, this will still take me a large portion of the day, and “reasonable hour” is passing by pretty quickly. Doing the laundry with a cheerful attitude seems out of the question, and I’m swiftly coming up with good excuses on why I could put it off and dress in old bedsheets.
The thing is, God cares about me and how I act, even when I’m doing my laundry. It’s easy for me to recognize that my attitude makes a difference when I’m working with others or at church or with my friends and family. I know that God expects me to serve with a willing heart, that He expects me to love others and to glorify Him with all I say and do. It’s just sometimes I forget that “all I say and do” extends to when I’m just saying and doing things by myself. Just because there aren’t people around or I’m not out in public doesn’t mean that God’s standards for me are gone. God is always with me and He’s always God, which means His rules for my life are always in place. When God says that I need to keep my thoughts pure, it’s not just when I’m sitting at church. When He commands me to love others, it’s not just when I’m face-to-face with them. And when God tells me to work wholeheartedly as if I’m doing the job for Him, God means that in everything I’m working at, whether it’s on the mission field or doing laundry.
God is right here with me and His word tells me to work for Him with my whole heart. Doing laundry seems like a little task compared to a big God, but if I can change my attitude with the little things, just think how easier it will be to change my attitude with the big things in life!
That is such a good point! I make so many excuses about the little things, but He certainly cares about my attitude about the little things just as much as the big!
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