It was just building a wall, and repairing some gates … but Nehemiah the Old Testament patriot believed in the job he was doing.

He even went so far as to call it a “great work!”

His answer to some enemies who wanted him to “come down from the wall and talk,” a ruse at best … “I am doing a GREAT WORK, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?” Nehemiah 6:3

And indeed, God had called and equipped Nehemiah to do that work, hence it was great.

But today I have a question.

Is the work you are doing “great” or “mediocre” or maybe just plain “boring?”

If you are truly living “unto the Lord,” I say anything you do in His Will is a “great work!”

Raising a child?

Preparing a Sunday School lesson?

Washing the dishes?

Working you job?

Whatever?

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” Paul in 1 Corinthians 10:31!

Cleaning house?

Winning a lost soul?

YOU WILL BE FAR LESS APT TO QUIT, OR EVEN SLACK OFF … IF YOU VIEW YOUR PRESENT ACTIVITY AS BEING “UNTO THE LORD!”

And I’m saying anything done “unto Him,” anything seeking His Approval … is “great work!

Don’t quit!

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9

Well, I must close for now.

I have a Sermon to prepare … a “great work” I suspect!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

Glory to God!

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