Humility And Hard Work

Sometimes its good to look back. I was browsing through my blog folders and found this post from a year ago. It is a relevant now as it was then….

As a person who has a few initials that I can put after my name, it is tempting to think that I am “too good” to do certain things. I found myself in this situation over the last couple of weeks.

As a Real Estate Broker, a Pastor, Secretary Of The Board Of Directors for a statewide fishing organization, moderator of 2 websites, I spend a lot of time at a desk. People look to me for guidance in their lives in more ways than one. So, when I found myself moving a bunch of greasy old engine parts, boxes of old papers, and doing general physical labor, I more than once found myself thinking what am I doing here…..

Each time though that these thoughts would come, I had to remember that Jesus himself did physical labor. We know he was a carpenter, and that is hard work. My father was a carpenter my entire life, and I saw first hand how hard he worked, coming home dead tired, wanting nothing more than to sleep. And this was with the aid of modern power tools. How much harder was the work for our Lord then when it was all done by hand. As I looked around at the people I had hired to help do this large job, I also had to think about them. They worked hard without complaint, happy to be able to make some money so that they could pay their bills. How then could I complain about a little hard work when I have a large home that I own, a couple nice cars, a motor home & other things that the lord has blessed me with. It humbled me even further to think that the price of just one of my fishing rod & reels was more than these men would make for this entire 2 weeks…..

I mentally rebuked myself, asked God to forgive me for thinking that I was better than Him, and joined in the work with a new uplift in my spirit and a new sense of humility that I did not have before.

I think that God sent me this job to do just to remind me that I am no better than anyone else, no matter how many titles I can put behind my name.

Lesson learned Lord….. Lesson learned.