Two Angels

(If you are looking for the connect study for this week it is posted directly below this post)

Donald Whitney, in his book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, describes a short illustration told by John Newton, the slave trader who became a pastor and wrote the hymn Amazing Grace. The story goes like this...

- If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of the ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God's will. -

Joy in serving lies not in the task itself but in the obedience to our perfectly wise and good Father who asks us to do these tasks. Obedience, no matter the task, great or small, no matter the recognition, praise of men or invisibility, and no matter what the earthly reward, riches or rags; obedience is what were called to.