From Mundane to Magnificent?

John 5:24  "Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life."

In doing one of my devotionals today, the title being Believe, the question put to me the reader was:  "I read Jesus; words, and the truth grips me.  I have eternal life right now!  It's mine as His gift to me as I hear and believe His Word.  How does this change everything mundane to magnificent?"

Now that is awesome.  And eternal LIFE...living, breathing, joy, peace abundance...is an absolutely awesome and amazing concept, especially in the light of spending that eternal life with the Lord...but does it make the mundane magnificent?  Well I have to disagree a bit there.  Being stuck in traffic or doing the laundry does not become magnificent just because I have eternal life.  Can I learn to do those things (still a work in progress for me!!) with a good attitude, with peace and joyfulness?  YES!!  Do mundane chores become more important in the light of eternal life?  No, I don't think so.  I believe they become more important in the light of how and why we do them.  And this is God's first visit of my day...to teach me once again how to take the mundane of the day and turn it into an act of love and worship for Him.

Anything I do, from mopping the floor, to cleaning cages at the shelter, to speaking on behalf of the persecuted church, everything I do, when done for Him, unto Him, and as from Him becomes a magnificent act because of who it is done for.  It blesses and honors the Father when I do whatever task it is with a good attitude and the desire to honor Him through whatever I am doing.  When I do this I allow the light of Jesus to shine through.

Lord, I wish I could remember to see everything in this way, that everything is just one more avenue in which You can be glorified.  Maybe that's what makes anything magnificent.  Help me, remind me often and consistently....I need it.  I want to honor You.  In Your holy and precious Name Jesus.  AMEN.