Colossians 3 - With all Your Heart

This entire chapter gives us great guidance on what to do as Christians and what not to do, I encourage everyone to read it all, over and over again, to hide in your heart and guide your actions. It speaks of But the specific verse that spoke to me was “(23)Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,”.

This means everything you do. Whether you want to or not, feel like it or not, believe it makes a difference or not, feel chosen or not, feel it’s important or not, “work at it with all your heart”. Too many times we can get caught up in the redundancy of things, the “hum drum”, the routine, and simply “skate” through on “auto pilot”, not really trying, just trying to get through. Specifically if we feel that the tasks we are doing are not that important. Does it really matter if the bathrooms aren’t “squeaky clean”? So we missed some of the garbage, does it really matter? Does everything in the church kitchen really need to be cleaned up? So what if I didn’t get ALL of the trash out of the parking lot, I got most of it. But this is not what the Bible commands us to do. We must “work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord”.

You see, when we look at the tasks from our eyes, we only see the value to us, not the value to the Lord. By doing things with all our heart, we show our faith and dedication to our Lord God, not to what man believes is acceptable. Applying all our heart to tasks, especially ones that others deem “not important”, really makes a difference. People will see the difference in us and we can use it to glorify the Lord. “Why are you picking up EVERY piece of trash?” The Lord told me to “work at it will all my heart”. Sounds like a great opportunity to minister.
Lord, please help me to remember, no matter what the task, that I should do it with all of my heart as working for You. For I know You can make wonderful things happen in even the seemingly smallest of tasks. By working with all my heart I glorify You and give others the opportunity to see Your greatness.