{"id":1161,"date":"2010-02-19T07:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:31:07","slug":"taking-the-initiative-against-drudgery-2-19-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Initiative Against Drudgery 2-19-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
February 19, 2010<\/div>\n
Arise, shine . . . \u2014Isaiah 60:1<\/strong><\/div>\n

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When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God.<\/p>\n

\"\"There is no point in waiting for God to help us\u2014 He will not.<\/strong> But once we arise, immediately we find He is there. Whenever God gives us His inspiration, suddenly taking the initiative becomes a moral issue\u2014 a matter of obedience. Then we must act to be obedient and not continue to lie down doing nothing. If we will arise and shine, drudgery will be divinely transformed.<\/p>\n

However, just arising out of our own power\u00a0can result in\u00a0 in just”religion”. Arising out of a real \u00a0connection with the Spirit of God\u00a0results in an intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ. JDV\/DJR<\/em><\/p>\n

By taking the first step we activate the\u00a0faith necessary to engage and connect with the Spirit of God. It is not that we must take the first step necessarily, but that we take an active step of faith. JDV\/DJR<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Drudgery is one of the finest tests to determine the genuineness of our character. Drudgery is work that is far removed from anything we think of as ideal work. It is the utterly hard, menial, tiresome, and dirty work.<\/p>\n

And when we experience it, our spirituality is instantly tested and we will know whether or not we are spiritually genuine. Read John 13. In this chapter, we see the Incarnate God performing the greatest example of drudgery\u2014 washing fishermen\u2019s feet. He then says to them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another\u2019s feet” (John 13:14<\/a> ). The inspiration of God is required if drudgery is to shine with the light of God upon it. In some cases the way a person does a task makes that work sanctified and holy forever. It may be a very common everyday task,<\/p>\n

\"\"but after we have seen it done, it becomes different. \"\"<\/a>
\nWhen the Lord does something through us, He always transforms it. Our Lord takes our human flesh and transforms it, and now every believer\u2019s body has become “the temple of the Holy Spirit”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 19, 2010 Arise, shine . . . \u2014Isaiah 60:1 When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us\u2014 He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}