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"Arise, shine . . ."
- Isaiah 60:1
When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the
first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to
help us— He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.
Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a
moral issue— a matter of obedience. Then we must act to be obedient and not
continue to lie down doing nothing. If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be
divinely transformed.
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. Read John 13. In this chapter, we see the
Incarnate God performing the greatest example of drudgery— washing fishermen’s
feet. He then says to them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your
feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet” (John 13:14). The inspiration
of God is required if drudgery is to shine with the light of God upon it. In
some cases the way a person does a task makes that work sanctified and holy
forever. It may be a very common everyday task, but after we have seen it done,
it becomes different. When the Lord does something through us, He always
transforms it. Our Lord takes our human flesh and transforms it, and now every
believer’s body has become “the temple of the Holy Spirit”
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