Does your next task matter to God?
Is the Creator King of a billion galaxies really interested in what we call a six-ton, four legged, vegetarian mammal with a seven foot, 400 pound trunk? After all, it's one thing to think that God cares about work in general, it's another to believe that he's interested in my work, and altogether a different matter to believe that he's interested in my next task - this apparently very small, very limited thing - this email to be sent, this call to be made, this decision to push through, this coffee cup to be washed up - finally. But the Bible suggests otherwise. In fact, God is sufficiently interested in something as mundane as the naming of an animal that he not only brings the animals to Adam but he waits around to find out what he's going to call them.
Why? Perhaps God is interested in how his Adam will uses his language skills and his powers of observation to name the creatures and distinguish them one from another. Perhaps God is actually interested in everything we do because he is intensely interested in us - like a parent gazing at a three-year-old's painting - interested not because they really expect to find early signs of Picassan imagination, but interested because they love their child. Incredibly, God is intensely interested in us, intensely interested in what we do with the talents, resources, power, freedom, authority and opportunities he's given us.
Why wouldn't he be? After all, he thought of you before the foundation of the world, knitted you together in your mother's womb and has therefore been waiting some time - if time exists for God - to see what you might do with what he's given you.
Every little thing you do, including the thing you are going to do next, is significant. And it is not only an expression of who you are but can be done to God's glory and be touched by the reality of who he is. Rejoice in his gaze, call on his help.
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