Drudgery

Sorting through my mailbox today I found this quote. I had mailed it to myself so I would have a copy of it. I don't know where I got it from, so I can't credit the author. (Sorry, whoever you are.)

"Drudgery is one of the finest tests to determine the genuineness of our character. Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work. And when we experience it, our spirituality is instantly tested and we will know whether or not we are spiritually genuine."

When we are children we hate drudgery. As we grow old we realize that we can find God in routine, the mundane, the toil of life and not somehow outside of it as if we could leave our bodies to meet him in nirvana. No, the beauty of God's creation is that we meet him here where we are, in our longings, in our suffering, in our drudgery.

Chambers says, "If we will arise and shine (as moms and dads say in the mornings!), drudgery will be divinely transformed.

May your drudgery be transformed today. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you! (Ephesians 5:14).

I need to have a reminder of this line of thought tattooed on my forehead.