When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to
take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in
waiting for God to help us— He will not. But once we arise, immediately
we find He is there. Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly
taking the initiative becomes a moral issue— a matter of obedience. Then
we must act to be obedient and not continue to lie down doing nothing.
If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be divinely transformed.
Drudgery is one of the finest tests to determine the genuineness of
our character. Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we
think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and
dirty work. And when we experience it, our spirituality is instantly
tested and we will know whether or not we are spiritually genuine. Read
John 13. In this chapter, we see the Incarnate God performing the
greatest example of drudgery— washing fishermen’s feet. He then says to
them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also
ought to wash one another’s feet” (John 13:14).
The inspiration of God is required if drudgery is to shine with the
light of God upon it. In some cases the way a person does a task makes
that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday
task, but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. When the
Lord does something through us, He always transforms it. Our Lord takes
our human flesh and transforms it, and now every believer’s body has
become “the temple of the Holy Spirit”
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