"With good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men." Ephesians 6:7
When we think of the most noble professions, we nearly always think of those that offer a service, such as doctors, lawyers, or teachers. Perhaps 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 revere most highly those who make a commitment to serving God and others: pastors, priests, monks, missionaries, evangelists, and Bible teachers.
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 committee meeting, and in the gym. It happens wherever 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 into a bowl of water,
Or stir up the fire with the bellows
Or tabulate interminable columns of figures on our bookkeeping 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 never 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."
Whatever the tasks you face today, perform them as if you were performing them for Jesus Himself, because ultimately you are!
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