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PAGE TITLE: CBN Daily Devotional
ARTICLE TITLE: It All Matters to
God
DATE: N.A
AUTHOR: Lori Stewart
AUTHOR
INFORMATION: Lori Stewart is the guest segment
producer at The 700 Club.
She’s also a pastor’s wife and Creative Director at 3n1 Church in Suffolk, Va.
She and her husband Matt have three teenagers and a Rhodesian ridgeback, Roxy.
When Lori gets inspired, she writes for her blog, www.thepastorswifesurvivalguide.blogspot.com. She enjoys
date nights, movies, bargain shopping, and hanging out with her kids.
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| Lori Stewart |
Daily Devotion
It All Matters to God
By
Lori Stewart
Staff Writer
Remember
in The Karate Kid
movie, “Wax on-wax off?” The future karate champion had no idea why he had
to wax cars using a certain hand motion. He just knew he was wasting valuable
time when he could be in training for the big competition. As viewers, we were
also baffled, until the last scene of the movie, when all those hand motions
finally made sense.
Have
you ever found yourself repeating the same tasks day after day? Did you ever
ask God, 'Why am I wasting time here God? What does this have to do with your
destiny for my life?'
I’m
sure young David asked these questions. Day after day he sat and watched
sheep. This bored teenager found two ways to pass the time—practice with
his slingshot and write music.
How
could he have known those dull, lonely years of shepherding would be the very
thing to prepare him for his destiny?
God
used David’s skill with a slingshot to launch him to fame and fortune when he
killed Goliath. His reward was to marry the king’s daughter and never again pay
taxes. From then on, everyone knew his name—he was elevated to our century’s
status as a “rock star.”
God
also used music to position David in the king’s court. His music career began
in the palace, singing songs before a mentally troubled King Saul. His passion
for worship would inspire him to one day bring the Arc back to Jerusalem and
set up a Tabernacle of 24/7 worship. Finally those songs and poems would
one day fill the book of Psalms, the finest poetic literature ever written,
inspiring countless millions of people to worship God and know Him intimately.
God
will use our skills, even the menial and tedious ones, to position us one day
in our place of destiny. I remember for 10 years, I ran our church’s
nursery. I’ve worked in just about every area of church ministry, but this
happened to be my least favorite. I never imagined God would use changing
diapers and disinfecting toys for anything special.
But
one year, God opened a door for my husband and I to go to Israel to work at the
Feast of Tabernacles, an international Christian Convention in Jerusalem. The
leaders of the convention needed someone to run the youth program and someone
to run the nursery. I had always dreamed of going to Israel, and now God was
using my experience in the nursery to fulfill my hearts desire! Since then,
we’ve returned to Israel 10 times to help with ministry, but not to work in the
nursery.
Oswald
Chambers says, “When the Spirit of God comes, He does not give us visions, He
tells us to do the most ordinary things conceivable...the ordinary commonplace
things…the most natural simple things—the things we would never have imagined
God was in, and as we do them we find He is there.”
So,
the next time you feel like banging your head against the wall because the
daily grind of life has become routine, say a prayer of thanks. God doesn’t
waste our time. He is the master Karate teacher, preparing us for battle. He
knows what skill we will need to fulfill our role in building His kingdom.
"How
can we understand the road we travel? It is the Lord who directs our steps.” (Proverbs
20:24)
To
those sitting at a computer all day, mowing lawns, studying in school, washing
dishes, or practicing the piano—rejoice. It all matters.
Lori
Stewart © 2009, printed with permission
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