EPHESIANS 6 : 7
When we think of the most profession, we nearly always think of those that offer a service, such as doctors, lawyers, or teachers. Pershaps at the pinnacle of the service professions are those who are involved in full-time ministry -- the helping of others in their spiritual lives in the name of the Lord. We tend to reverse most highly those who make a commitment to serving God and others: pastors, priests, monks, missionary, evangelists, and Bible teacher
Ministry, however, is not limited to those who earn their living by it. Ministry is the call and challenge of God to all Christians. Ministry is giving to others and living our lives as unto the Lord
Ministry happens in the home, in the school, on the street, at the grocery store, in the boardroom, at the committe meeting, and in the gym. It happens whenever and whenever a person, motivated by the love of Jesus Christ, performs an act of loving service for another person
Gandhi once wrote:
If when we plunge our hand unto a bowl of water,
Or stir up the fire with the bellows
Or tabulate interminable columns of figureson our
Biikkeeping table,
Or, burnt by the sun, we are plunged in the mud
of the rice field,
Or standing by the smelter's furnace
We do not fulfill the same religious life as if in prayer
In a monastery, the world will nver be saved."
There is no ignoble work except that which is void of
ministry! There is no lack of meaning in any job
Performed with God's love and "as unto the Lord."
Whenever the tasks you today, perform them as if
You were performing them for Jesus Himself,
Because ultimately you ate!
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