Behold! God is mighty, and yet despises no one nor regards anything as trivial; He is mighty in power of understanding and heart. – Job 36:5, Amplified Bible (AMP)

There will be times in your life when you will be in the middle of a task that The Lord has assigned you to do, and you will ask yourself, “Why am I bothering to do this?” As best you can tell, no one cares about what you are doing. No one is responding to your efforts, and every shot you take for The Lord misses the mark. Your recurrent failures make you doubt not only the task you’ve been given, but your worth as one of His servants as well.

It is at times like these that the reality of Job 36:5 really hits home. God is almighty. God owns everything. And, since God has all of the strength and all of the resources to do ANYTHING, He doesn’t need your help in any way, shape, form, or fashion. However, He wants your help, not for His benefit, but for yours. He has entrusted you with a work that is designed to make both you and those around you more like Christ, and in this way there is nothing trivial or demeaning about any work God calls you to do.

“But,” you say, “my job is to clean the bathrooms at church. That’s demeaning. That’s trivial.” Poppycock! Have you ever been to a restaurant and found the restrooms so nasty that you vowed never to go back? If so, you’re not the only one. According to the USA Today article entitled “Would you eat in a restaurant with a dirty bathroom?”:

[Dirty restrooms are] gonna cost business. Nearly 3 in 10 consumers surveyed said there are no second chances with dirty restrooms — and they would never return to the restaurant again…Consumers are increasingly posting descriptions and even photos of what they find on Facebook, in blogs and travel reviews and on other social-media sites.

Now, if people choose not to return to restaurants because of dirty bathrooms, don’t you think that people also choose not to return to churches for the same reason? There are many reasons why people don’t return to churches, and dirty facilities is absolutely one of them. Even cleaning the restrooms, though perhaps trivial in the eyes of men, is extremely important in the eyes of God, for a dirty bathroom could be the reason why someone leaves a church service before hearing the Gospel.

No matter what your work for Christ is, and no matter how much or how little you see other people respond to it, keep plugging away. Don’t give up. God doesn’t consider the work trivial, nor does He consider trivial the person to whom He entrusted the work – you.

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