12-Jan-2021_being faithful to your calling
(Jesus speaking: ) Do you have a gift, a talent that has been intrusted to you? –Say for example your gift of typing and receiving new wine? Then be faithful in this calling. So what if it’s different than what you used to be, it’s a new tool and I expect you to faithfully use it; being faithful to your calling.
I didn’t say to do things I’ve tooled you and asked you to do, only if and when they feel exciting and are the most pleasurable, but to do them faithfully, day after day, even if it is year after year. Being faithful is what I reward you for, not how many great and cool things you get to do; how many times you circle the globe, or how big your facebook fan club is*, so you can boast you really are “reaching many”. But if you aren’t busy with the, sometimes, just one little gift I have asked you to be faithful in, how can I know for certain that you will be faithful in the one city you are given, or the one large land area I want you to monitor in the coming days. (*disclaimer: the typist doesn’t use facebook)
Being faithful means a lot of things. It means that you can then be trusted to go on to new tasks, because you will do them well. It means you have a higher level of self-sacrifice and won’t do things just to please yourself, and thus risk others missing out on getting their needs met. Being faithful means you have learned to work, and not just to play. It also means you respect and fear Me, and know that what you do, or even what you don’t do, matters in the big scheme of things. 
Now of course, WHAT you are being faithful in matters. It’s not just being faithful in whatever you tenaciously cling to, but in doing what I need you to do. If you do what I have asked, there will be less flare and less glory and perhaps quite a bit less “fun and excitement” than something you might choose to religiously do day after day. 
For example, being faithful to keep track of the cricket score*, and spending plenty of time watching and even praying for a team’s success, well, it’s energy wasted—unless you are praying for their salvation and that of their families. So it’s not just about daily doing a task, but doing the one you were cut out to do. (*disclaimer: the typist does not take any time or thoughts on cricket.)
So, with that said, shall we get on with it? You don’t have to feel a wave of excitement, but you do need to get going and making progress each day.