Chapter five of Mike Erre’s book Why Guys Need God is called Harps, Clouds, and Backhoes. In this chapter I want to talk about this paragraph
What we are doing matter less than why we are doing it. A biblical masculine spirituality doesn’t bother to dicriminate between important and unimportant jobs or spiritual and sacred ones, but instead encourages men to do the best they can, for the glory of God, with whatever assignments fall their way. To use our everyday work to cooperate with God’s invasion of the earth is the essence of following Jesus.
Sometimes we put the emphasis on what we are doing instead of why we are doing. In some sort of vain way we want to say hey look at me look what I can accomplish. I know I have many times fallen into this trap but in reality we need to stop and put some htought into why we are doing. We so often clump our work or jobs into categories as if well my job is more spiritual than yours. I know as a pastor I have been faced with this idea many times. Sometimes people have come up to me and just told me htat my job was somehowe more spiritual than theirs. However we need to be encouraged as this paragraph says to do the best we can no matter what the job for the glory of God. It does not matter what I am doing I need to give it my all for God’s glory.
