How do you approach the things you need to do? What is your attitude at work? Who is your inspiration for all you do? What is your motivation to accomplish your tasks? Are you striving for high achievements? Do you wish you had a great inspiration for those daily tasks?
Our attitude toward daily life, its daily tasks, and the mundane determines not only how we approach them but how well we will do them. Think not? We don’t typically like cleaning. We do enough to make things look decent but not always a deep cleaning.
Yet, if we approach every task as though it was for God, we might take them a little more seriously. If we cleaned our house as if cleaning it for Jesus, we might spend a little more time on those corners and the baseboards. But rather than cleaning because we want to impress, we should clean with the joy of the Lord. By the way, substitute any other task for cleaning.
Notice in today’s passage that we are to thank God while we are completing those daily tasks. Why? God has blessed so that we can complete them. We like to say there is always someone worse off than us. We should thank God we are as able to walk, see, speak, and listen. So, thank God while working on those daily tasks.
Having a positive attitude, an attitude of Christ, can make all the difference in how we go about our daily tasks. Giving thanks to God is a good way to change our attitude. Therefore, as we give thanks, our attitude gets better and as our attitude gets better, we perform better and as we perform better, we give thanks more.
I pray we all choose to give thanks to God. I pray we choose to have the attitude of Jesus. I pray each one of us do everything we do and say everything we say in the name of Jesus. Give thanks to God. Have the attitude of Jesus. Do everything in Jesus’ name.
Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Marty Pressey 