Why are we doing what we are doing? Is it to look good to others around us or are we doing it for the Lord? I ask this question, because I see so many times people only do what is in their job description. I do not work at my Church in a paid position anymore, but I am connected to the daily routine. Each person has a specific task to do according to what they were hired to do. We also should be like a family, doing what we can to help each other.
When I worked at the Church many years ago, I loved it when I could help someone else. Even now if I can do something to help someone else to get done quicker so they have less to do, I do it. I believe the phrase is “See a need, Fill a need.” Many times, they do not know that it was me. I do not need a pat on the back or recognition. Sometimes the person I help I tell them I just want you to know you are loved.
1 Corinthians 1:10 “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
That is not always the case now a days. Today I see people saying one thing and doing another. I have even had someone come to me and ask me why I did not do whatever it was that needed to be done. I have seen many people walk over a piece of paper on the floor and not pick it up. Then guess who picked it up. Like the verse above we should all be joined together in the same mind. When we do our own thing and say that is not my job, then we have a division. Anything we can do; we should do it to the glory of the Lord.
I saw this anonymous clip that sums it all up:
That’s Not My Job!
This is a story about four people
Named: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an Important job to be done and
Everybody was sure that Somebody
Would do it. Anybody could have done
It, but Nobody did it. Somebody got
Angry about that, because it was
Everybody’s job. Everybody thought
Anybody could do it, but Nobody
Realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed
Somebody when Nobody did what
Anybody could have done.
I wish I knew who wrote that because that is a great summary of the way many people think.
We should be all doing our part no matter how menial the task may be. Even my Pastor has stated many times that he is willing to do whatever the task, even clean a toilet, to the glory of the Lord. I might add that I have seen him do it all at the Church. He has never had the attitude That’s Not My Job! We should follow his example and not think highly of ourselves that we do not have to do something we do not normally do.
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