Are you doing menial work when you feel you have a greater calling?

 

Look at David. His entire schooling was doing what kids do in a family like his – chasing ewes, shepherding sheep.

 

Yet David grasped the parallels. He realized that the lowest work was really at the heart of the greatest work. To serve, to lead, to protect a great people was just a larger context of what he had been doing in his youth – shepherding people, like he shepherded sheep.

 

He emerges from obscurity from among hundreds of thousands who had enormous potential.

 

He merges to lead. His significance was not hindered by his lowly position. He did that faithfully. The greater work came later — yet sooner than he expected.

 

The God who calls us from the sheepfolds is a compassionate and understanding God. He is a God who shapes us and restores us. He fashions us for something more than we think we are and to do more than we think we can do.