Latest / Prayer Before Work / S01E16-Nobody's Watching. Do It Anyway.
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- Sean Graver: Well, good morning, and I am really glad you're starting your day here today, because we're going to take a few minutes before the day gets started and bring it all to God. So I invite you to bring, grab your coffee or your favorite morning beverage and let's read a verse and then we will pray. And we're going to be in the book of Luke chapter 16 today in verse 10. And Luke 16, 10 says that, whoever can be trusted with very little, can also be trusted with much. And whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much." So Jesus is making a direct connection between how we handle the small stuff and what we can be entrusted with down the road. I mean the little things then aren't just little things. They're more like the training ground or maybe more like a proving ground. They are where character gets built when the stakes are low. Now there's a version of work that's all about the big moments, the presentation, a promotion, the project that finally gets noticed, and those things matter for sure. But they're all built on top of a thousand small decisions that nobody applauded. How do you handle the email that doesn't require a response but deserves one? How will you treat the person who can't do anything for your career? And how thoroughly you do the task that won't show up on any report or performance review. I mean nobody's watching those moments or so it feels. But Jesus draws a direct line that says the way you handle what seems insignificant is exactly how you'll handle what seems significant. So in other words, faithfulness scales. So the question for today isn't what's the big win I need? It's what's the small thing I need to show up fully. So let's pray. Now it's easy to bring my best when the stakes feel high and people are watching, but help me bring that same energy to the moments that seem invisible. mean today I want to be faithful in the small things, the follow through that nobody will check, the quality that only I will know about, or maybe the kindness that doesn't get recorded anywhere. And help me remember that you see all of it, that nothing done faithfully for you is too small to matter. And that the path to being trusted with more runs straight through being trustworthy right now. I want to be that person today. I pray in Jesus' name, amen. I go make today count.