“I don’t think about the ‘little duties’, I just do them.” That was the answer I received. That’s how I remember the answer.
My question had to do with the daily round, the routine which may so easily crush us. Let me just name some of the ‘little duties’, the daily chores: Washing the dishes, making the bed, sweeping the floor, baking. Add more if you want to!
NOBODY is excempt from the ‘little duties’, the daily chores!
Are you easily crushed by the routine?
An anonymous writer says this about the ‘little duties’:
“Life is full of little duties. Worrying about them, grumbling about them, dwelling upon them makes the duties shackles which bind us, but just doing the duties makes them wings.”
Does that help you?
The BIBLE says, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” – First Corinthians 10:31
Who is crushed by dirty dishes? It does not really matter, if you have a dishwasher or not.
The following is helping me tremendeously when I am thinking about the dirty dishes.
“The following poem was found on the wall of a shepherd’s cottage out of SEDDEN in the 1960’s………….
Thank God for dirty dishes
They have a tale to tell
While others may go hungry
We’ve eaten very well
With home and help and happiness
We shouldn’t want to fuss
For by the stack of evidence
God’s been very good to us.
Sent in by Hassanah Lawler of Nelson.” – (Age Concern Newsletter, August 2009)
Please read Ephesians 5:20 and First Thessalonians 5:18.
Not long ago I came across this VICTORIAN WISDOM:
“NOTHING IS TROUBLESOME THAT WE DO WILLINGLY.”
Read again the answer I received when I asked about the daily routine. The answer was: “I don’t think about the little duties, I just do them.”
You can find the ad “Christmas with a difference” in the magazine called VIVA, 08/08/2012, and VIVA comes with THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD.
In THE COLLINS CONCISE DICTIONARY I find two definitions for Christmas. First of all it says there that Christmas is on December 25 and that it is the yearly celebration of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ by Christians. Secondly it says there that Christmas is also called Christmas Day, that Christmas Day is also on December 25 and that it is observed as a worldly celebration. On Christmas Day gifts and greetings are exchanged.
CHRISTMAS 1958
For me CHRISTMAS 1958 was a “CHRISTMAS WITH A DIFFERENCE”.
What happened?
Until then it was CHRISTMAS DAY, a worldly celebration, receiving and giving gifts. More receiving gifts, than giving, because I was still young at that time.
From then on it was the yearly celebration of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
What really happened?
When I was eighteen years old, I became a new creature, I experienced the new birth.
Just as people are born physically, people are born spiritually. And just as I know that I am born physically, I know that I am born spiritually.
Many things are happening when one believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let me just give you the six in relation to God the HOLY SPIRIT:
1. We are born again. 2. We are anointed by the Holy Spirit. 3. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 4. We are indwelt by the Holy Spirit. 5. We are sealed by the Holy Spirit. 6. We are given a spiritual gift by the Holy Spirit.
Is CHRISTMAS DAY for you a worldly celebration, where you give and receive gifts or is it the yearly commemoration of the of birth of our Lord JESUS CHRIST?
THE NEW BIRTH, WHEN A PERSON BECOMES A NEW CREATURE, MAKES ALL THE DIFFEREENCE!
In John 3:3 the BIBLE says, “Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
“I don’t think about the ‘little duties’, I just do them.” That was the answer I received. That’s how I remember the answer.
