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Verse:Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. —Colossians 3:23, 24, NIV
I recently had the opportunity to do something I rarely make time for: get a manicure and pedicure on the same day. I guessed at the time when the salon would be open and went around then. To my disappointment, both salons (same owners) were still closed. I knew there was another one not too far away, so I drove there.
When I arrived, it appeared the staff had just gotten in.
They were busy cleaning up the store, and I was the only client there. I told them what I wanted. They assigned someone to me, while the others kept at their individual tasks. When they were done, they each sat down, and most of them got on their phones —except for one lady. She was practicing how to apply nail polish, using the cap of another nail polish bottle as her practice “nail.” As I was still the only client there, the beautician taking care of me gave me an extended amount of time, making sure all the details were taken care of. Yet I continued to watch the other cosmetologist practicing. I was fascinated with how much time she was taking to perfect her art.
When she was done practicing on the bottle cap, she called over a colleague and practiced polishing her nails.
As I watched her practice, Colossians 3:23, 24 came to mind: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart. … It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (NIV).
Long after I left, I continued to be impressed with the amount of dedication I’d seen that beautician exercising. Was she new at the profession? I had no idea. In any case, her diligence caught and kept my attention.
I pray that whatever I choose to do or am called to do, I will persevere with a level of attention and diligence that will be pleasing to my Father.
Dear heavenly Father, sometimes You have asked simple things of us, and we think they are too simple and do not want to give them our best efforts.
Help us to realize that before we are assigned the complicated and big things, we must prove ourselves capable of handling the simple instructions.
Help us to be faithful and diligent in all we do.
Kaysian C. Gordon