Let us stake the flag of Christ's kingdom into the soil of our
first waking moment. Drink your coffee when you get up, of course, but
drink it to the glory of God. Then carry on in this way all day, no
matter the task, be it menial or notable, so that each day may be a
living prayer that God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
This is what it means to live a gospel-saturated life: it means being so
conscious of the greatness of the gospel that changing diapers or
cutting the grass is as much an act of worship as singing a praise
chorus in a church service….Jesus Christ is Lord over my heart, and he is Lord over my hands,
and he is Lord over what I do with these hands, and he is Lord over what
I say in my heart while I'm doing it. In submitting to the lordship of
Christ, then, I do not treat washing dishes as wasting time I could be
spending doing something "meaningful," but rather as a service to those
who eat in my home, as a service to those who would have to wash the
dishes if I did not, and as an offering of thanksgiving to God that I
have food to eat, dishes to eat it on, and running water inside my home
to clean with.
Gospel Wakefulness by Jared Wilson.
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