Do your job

Now some of them were in charge of the serving vessels, for they brought them in and took them out by count… - 1 Chronicles 9v28

Our church uses a hired hall for our meeting place. We share our facilities with a Montessori school upstairs in the local GAA. It is not our own place, but we are grateful for it and it suits us pretty well.

Anyone who uses a hired hall knows the Sunday morning routine. Chairs need to be dragged from storage and set up. The pulpit needs to be carried out. The piano, keyboard, or whatever needs to be set up. Bibles and songbooks need brought out. All kinds of odds and ends need to be brought from storage and set up. There really is quite a bit to do, so everyone has a job.

Morgann’s job it to bring out the extra Bibles and the box where people put their offerings. Sometimes she does not see her job as very important and want to do the big stuff, like carry out the chairs. I am explaining to her that every single job is important. If she didn’t do hers, where would people put their offering?

This is not a new situation. In the tabernacle everyone had a job. Some were in charge of bringing the vessels for service in and out. Some took care of the furniture. Some were in charge of the wine and flour. Everyone had a job to do and every job was vital.

We need to remember that in a church every single job is vital. Whether one is preaching in the pulpit or changing nappies in the crèche their job is vital. If one part is missing the whole thing breaks down.

Your job is vital – even if you think it is the most mundane boring job there is. There is nothing mundane about our practical service for the Lord.