February 19, 2014 - "I Made Myself Do It"

GMA, We are half way through another week and wow, it felt soooo much like spring yesterday. I am sharing one of my devotionals from the morning as it's too good to pass. EVERY one of us have completed tasks that we absolutely didn't want to complete. Yes? I found myself there yesterday. I never thought about how completing tasks we really can't stand actually tests our character. I find there are still so many areas I need maturing in. :) I will move this flesh a little quicker next time and REMEMBER that life is not always going to hand me "things I want to do." Completing the DO NOT WANT TO COMPLETE LIST, with a right attitude, gives a brilliant opportunity to remind this flesh, "you're not the boss of me." Willingness and attitude toward the task - huge in maturity. Right? Have a good Wednesday! PK This is from My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers): Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery 02192014 Arise, shine . . . —Isaiah 60:1 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.”