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"Arise, shine." (Isaiah 60:1)

"We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is
there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral one. We must do the thing and not lie like a log. If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transformed.
Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal-the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real. Read John 13. We see there the Incarnate God doing the most desperate piece of drudgery, washing fisherman's feet, and He says-"If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet." It requires the inspiration of God to go through drudgery with the light of God upon it. Some people do a certain thing and the way in which they do it hallows that thing forever afterwards. It may be the most commonplace thing, but after we have seen them do it, it becomes different. When the Lord does a thing through us, He always transfigures it. Our Lord took on Him our human flesh and transfigured it, and it has become for every saint the temple of the Holy Ghost."
(Oswald Chambers)

Not too long ago we had a couple leave the church. The woman was tired of being a "worker bee" and wanted to be the "Queen bee" of the Women's Ministry. When they told her they didn't think she was the one to do the job she left and took others with her who took sides.
Jesus is our example when it comes to doing what we think of as drudgery. Like washing the fisherman's feet.
No matter what the Lord calls you to do, do it with a glad heart.
Knowing this-" Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:" (Phil. 1:6)

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