‘Let’s practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let’s believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.’ - A.W. Tozer
There is nowhere our God cannot be found. We compartmentalize, put boundaries around our lives, our work, our relationships, our thoughts, and our actions, but the One who upholds the universe by the word of His power is not constrained or held by anything built with human hands (Heb 1:3, Acts 17:24).
So why is it so hard for us to find him in the ‘simple deeds’?
In the quiet moments?
In the unseen?
Perhaps we fail to see God in the simple deeds because we believe that there are simple deeds and significant deeds, important moments and mundane moments, sacred space, and secular space. But as Sally Lloyd-Jones reminds us, ‘Every story whispers His name.’
‘And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.’ Colossians 1:17
Every work can reveal Christ to us. Every work we offer can reveal Christ to the world. We can make Him visible in our simple deeds when we find Him there.
Spirit, would you reveal Jesus to us - in the simple and small, in the mundane and monotonous. And may we reveal Jesus to the world in the simple and small, in the mundane and monotonous. In His name, amen.
Looking,
AB