Attitude Check.

Good Morning,

I woke up wanting to share this verse with you for the week:

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters.” – Colossians 3:23

After living and experiencing life, you begin to learn that many people respond differently and act differently toward life.

Different people have different attitudes toward certain things.

Some people, if you ask them to do something, their first instinct is simply no. It may not be loud or confrontational, but there is a quiet resistance.

Others will do what is asked, but you are going to hear about it the entire time. There is the sigh, the commentary, the running critique. The task gets done, but the atmosphere becomes heavy while it is happening. The work is completed, yet it drains the room.

Then there are the steady, neutral ones. They will handle the responsibility. No fuss, no resistance, but no real enthusiasm either. They are not upset. They are not excited. They are simply present, functional, moving through the moment.

If we are honest, most of us drift between these responses without even realizing it.

Lately, however, I have been asking myself a different question.

What if whatever I am doing, I do it as if I am doing it unto the Lord?

Standing in line at Walmart. Talking with a friend. Sitting in church. Eating dinner with my family.

What if I did not treat the ordinary moments of life as interruptions, but as gifts to be received?

The world can feel heavy at times. There is real darkness, real hurt, and real confusion. If you live in that atmosphere long enough, it can quietly make a person cynical, numb, or critical.

That is when I hear my mother’s voice.

She used to sing it more than say it: “Always keep your heart tender.”

Tender enough to still worship.
Tender enough to still believe God is moving.
Tender enough to treat people with kindness in a hard world.

I do not want to live critical. I do not want to live numb.
And I certainly do not want to simply move through my days.

I want to live as though every moment matters to God, because it does.

Perhaps revival is not always the loud moment in a crowded room.

Perhaps sometimes revival is quieter than that.

Perhaps it is a heart that stayed tender.
A spirit that stayed grateful.
A person who keeps showing up each day saying, “Lord, this moment belongs to You.”

And if I can live that way, doing the ordinary things of life as unto Him, then every day begins to carry a little bit of heaven within it.

That is the life I want, and that is the life I urge you to begin living!

Family and friends, may you take the ordinary, simple moments of life today and cherish them as if you were doing them for the Lord.

Blessings,
Mike