God Drove This Verses Home

I just want to share this with people in hopes that they would apply it to their life too. The verse that follows has real meaning in it for me now more so than it ever did.

Colossians 3:23 (King James Version)

23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Let me explain, I work for a large company that delivers food to restaurants in the United States, places like Wendy’s and Donatoes. We are going though laid offs, just like other companies. At this company, I do a fairly meaningless job I fuel trucks. About 4 months ago they laid me off trying to cut cost. The call me back on Dec. 2, I am one of the first to be called back, as far as I know there has only been one other call back and he was in management. From what I have gather form the other employee’s, they were all complaining because my job was not getting done right by others that had taken over my position. I have always done the job to the best of my abilities even though the job was not important to most people. I fuel the truck, washed the windows, check the oil and coolant levels. Looked over the trucks for broken parts and safety problems, and sometimes did repairs on the spot to get drivers down the road. I did this to about 40 to 50 trucks a day. While still trying to have a good time with every one I worked with. No one new why I toke my job so seriously, they though I was stupid for doing this. But I have always been someone that thought, if I was going to do something I was going to do the best that I could do or I just was not going to do it at all. No the job doesn’t seem that important unless you happen to be that one taking the trucks out. You see it was about God, the drivers, and Me. God said Always to my best as if I was doing it for him. Beside after a while I starting liking and caring about the drivers, I got to know them and I would feel real bad if something happen to one of them because I was lazy or just did think my job mattered enough to do my best. I believe, because I did my best to do my job even though it wasn’t or didn’t seem that important, it made a difference in the over all company performance and people lives. That’s why I was call back when they are still cutting jobs and routes. My follow employee’s wanted me back and they were complaining so much about how bad things where getting, that they decided to call me back even though they were still laying off people and doing cut backs.

God drove it home for me. I have learned my lesion well and found again that following God ways does have its rewards even here sometimes and in more ways than one! I believe if we all would learn this lesion this world would be a much better place for all of us. So do your best even it don’t seem to mean much to you because it probable does to someone somewhere!

Don Minor