"....in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses."
2 Corinthians 6:4
I woke up this beautiful sunny morning with a burning sense of what needs to be done. Piles of laundry grace my bedroom floor from too many lazy nights when I didn't want to put it all away, dishes stacked and waiting, laundry growing mold in the basket as it awaits cleaning. The ache in my heart to just twitch my nose and it all to be put aright is very strong today. "Anything but this Lord" I pray to myself as I scan the cluttered corners.
It takes Almighty grace to take the next step when there is no vision and no spectator--the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator. It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.
Every Christian has to partake of what was the essence of the Incarnation, he must bring the thing down into flesh and blood actualities and work it out through the finger tips. We flag when there is no vision, no pulpit, but just the common round, the trivial task. The thing that tells in the long run for God and for men is the steady persevering work in the unseen, and the only way to keep the life uncrushed is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the Risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to damp you. Continually get away from pettiness and paltriness of mind and thought out into the thirteenth chapter of St. John's Gospel.
~Oswald Chambers
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