“You have hedged me behind and before…” Psalm 139: 5-6
How am I hedged in? By my health, or lack thereof? By my inability to work at my old job? By my circumstances that are interwined with others’ lives? And my grumbling? is it against God’s providence? I think so. So I’d better quit complaining and start giving thanks. Thanks for work, for the ability to earn some sort of living in this screwed-up topsy-turvy economy that promises to become even more unraveled, or so the people who know claim. I will not worry about those things. I will not worry about not having “free” time to do what I please. I am still on God’s time clock – I had forgotten that. I am like the horse turned out to pasture that would prefer to be left out to swat flies all day and graze and nap at will. When the Lord approaches me with the saddle, here comes the attitude, and I want to head to the other end of the paddock. What thankfulness is that? He owns me. What right do I have to evade His harness? He gives me all that I have, including my very breath, and I should be so unappreciative? No, I will submit and do so with a smile and nary a grumble.
Work is not a punishment, it is a privilege to work alongside our God as He blesses both the just and the unjust. Where did my work ethic go?
Remember, Mary, work is a privilege. Labor faithfully, knowing that you labor along with the Lord Jesus Christ as He brings His plan and Kingdom to pass.
