worship while you work.

so, i was sitting at work doing my job... sort of... and it hit me. it was after i wrote my previous entry yesterday, and i was talking about my job and how i'm mostly satisfied and whatnot. and suddenly, something my old pastor said in a conversation once came back to me. we had been talking about worship, and how if you can worship even with music you don't like because of your sacrifice in worshipping despite the style your offer of worship is greater than it would be if you liked the style. and this thought struck me as i was surfing the internet for job opportunities that i may want in the future and such, and immediately i thought this. if i do my work that i don't always enjoy and do it to the best of my ability, isn't that glorifying to God even more so than if i was doing a job that i adored?

it's easy to do a good job at a job that you love and are good at, but when you're not the best at something or you just don't like doing something we don't always put in the effort to finish strongly. our lives and our work are all offers of worship to God and to do less than our best is kind of to tell Him that He is worthy of our best work through our hard times. And it just hit me hard. Yes, I could complain about how I don't like every single aspect of my job and how it's so hard to do a job that i just don't love, but that's not what counts. what counts is not the challenges i face, but how i handle those challenges. and i think i'm going to start handling them in a different way now because worship is more than something i do on sunday morning, it's how i live my life.

-lovingly-
k