Taking that Step: Menial Work.

John 13:14
14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.

Sometimes tasks that we have to accomplish feel monotonous, dull, menial, or boring as we all tend to call it. At times, it feels like we're doing "busy work" much like high school can feel. I remember many teachers would hand out work and I would ask "what is the purpose of this?" Half of the time I would understand the purpose, while the rest of the time I still was unclear about it's relevance. However, I still did the work anyway. God can help us get any job done though. He can be the inspiration that we need. If we act in obedience and don't undermine anything in particular, our dull tasks can be transformed into an inspirational task particularly if it's intended to benefit God's kingdom.

The aforementioned work certainly reveals our true character. Sure the work isn't ideal to us, but if we work obediently, that says something. Additionally, our spirituality is tested (see "Spiritual Exhaustion" post July 12).

In the case of Jesus Christ, he washed the fisherman's feet. If your friend, were to tell you wash feet, most likely you wouldn't go all in to do it. However, I can tell you, it's an emotionally powerful experience (both washing someone else's feet and someone washing your feet). The Lord can take a common and/or uninspiring task and revolutionize it into something completely different. This is God working through us. Specifically, God works on our human qualities and changes our body into a living, holy temple.

How will you look at your "boring" tasks differently today? What does that say about your character and spirituality? Hilaire Belloc said, "Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring." While the two extremes do exist in reality, try to make everything interesting and certainly inspirational. Finally, be obedient!