MOW THE LAWN. I enjoy mowing the lawn, but for most people it’s a mundane chore that needs to get done on a weekly basis. Otherwise, your lawn grows out of control and your neighbors complain. You make the whole neighborhood look bad when you do not keep up your yard. Pause and think about that.
Recently, I was praying for someone and the Spirit spoke to me, “tell them to mow the lawn”. I had to investigate this as I was not sure what was meant. I prayed on it for a while and the Lord revealed it: be diligent to do the mundane work- continually.
“For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.” Hebrews 10:36
Humans and especially a lot of Christians I know are always seeking for the mountain top experiences. They seek signs and wonders, running to every Christian concert and prophetic ministry. They follow around those who have a healing ministry, seek to be slain in the Spirit and fall out under the tingles. They pine after the emotional highs and the “atta-boys” of a mission trip from all those watching on social media, but it’s in the mundane where our character is built.
It’s when we continue to work for Him, not seeing any results for years and no one else sees or returns to gives thanks where our faith is built. It’s when we are busy mowing the lawn, putting our head down and plowing that proverbial field that we have been given to tend when God shows up in a big way to reward faithfulness.
The faithful of the Bible were those who continued to diligently obey God through the mundane. They faithfully did the work set out before them, never quitting and never giving up. They fought battles of fear and depression, adversity and persecution even from their own brethren; but they kept going. They were never offended and they guarded their hearts and mouths and kept mowing. These were unsuccessful by the world’s standards, but great successes in the eyes of their Master.
Many were obedient unto death, and some never seeing the results of their work. It is said of this kind of faithfulness, “the world was not worthy of them”. You must be diligent to persevere through the mundane if you are to finish your race. Only those who endure will be rewarded. Character is not built in a day, but rather day after day of doing the mundane and learning to find joy in working for the Lord, even when you do not get the credit for a job well done and you don’t immediately see the results.
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
II Timothy 2:15
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