A Worthwhile Job

Isn’t it frustrating when you have finished the dishes, and half an hour later your services are needed to wash the dishes used in preparing the next meal? It has been frustrating for me. All my work is seemingly undone and I am faced with almost the same task as before.

“I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it.”* (Ecclesiastes 3:14)

Can dishes be done foever? “Ha! Dishes done forever!?”

It all depends on how you do them.

If I wash the dishes with Jesus, with His grace reigning in my heart, having a cheerful, sweet disposition, then those dishes are done forever—they will never have to be done again!

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men.”* (Galatians 6:10)

Opportunities are everywhere!

Especially opportunities to do dishes! But there are many other things also, like tasks which grate on our nerves. These, if we ask Jesus to come and help us, can be accomplished, and good be done.

Matthew 25:15-30—God has given us talents.

In my family and friends, there are manifested many talents, and some I have, and some I don’t. A lesson in this parable is very clear to me: we are to work in our own talent—think of it as a job, a responsibility. We shouldn’t concentrate on another’s talent (wishing we had it)—we have our own to attend.

Some jobs seem worth more than others—like the “five talents” and “two talents.” Yet the Lord said unto each that had faithfully labored with his talent, “enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

The blessing of the Lord is worth all the labor, even if your talent seems like nothing important—it was important enough that the Lord gave it to you, right?

—C.S.