Love the Daily Tasks
Doing everyday tasks with love and a cheerful attitude can transform and transfigure your life, making your character beautiful and bright.
Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of wholeheartedly serving God in all aspects of life, seeking Him in every work, law, and commandment, leading to prosperity. She highlights the transformation that occurs when we joyfully and faithfully carry out our daily tasks, shaping our character and bringing brightness to our lives. Tileston reminds us that the key to a beautiful and bright character lies in doing common tasks with patience, promptness, faithfulness, and cheerfulness, always infused with love. Quoting Thomas À Kempis, she underscores that God values the love with which we work more than the quantity of our deeds, emphasizing that true abundance comes from doing things well with love.
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And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
--2 CHRONICLES 31:21
HELP me in Christ to learn to do Thy will,
That I may have from Him eternal life;
And here on earth Thy perfect love fulfil,
Then home return victorious from the strife.
-JONES VERY
THERE is no other way in which one's life will be so surely, so quickly transfigured, as in the faithful, happy, cheerful doing of every-day tasks. We need to remember that this world is not so much a place for doing things as for making character. Right in the midst of what some people call drudgery is the very best place to get the transformed, transfigured life. The doing of common tasks patiently, promptly, faithfully, cheerfully, makes the character beautiful and bright. But we must take heed always that we do our tasks, whatever they are, with love in our heart. Doing any kind of work unwillingly, with complaint and murmuring, hurts the life.
--J. R. MILLER
God weigheth more with how much love a man worketh, than how much he doeth. He doeth much that loveth much. He doeth much that doeth a thing well.
--THOMAS À KEMPIS
Sermon Outline
- The Importance of Doing Everyday Tasks
- The Benefits of Doing Everyday Tasks
- The Dangers of Doing Tasks Unwillingly
- Doing everyday tasks patiently, promptly, faithfully, and cheerfully makes character beautiful and bright
- Doing tasks with love in our heart is essential
- Doing tasks unwillingly hurts the life
- Complaint and murmuring can have negative effects
Key Quotes
“God weigheth more with how much love a man worketh, than how much he doeth.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“He doeth much that loveth much. He doeth much that doeth a thing well.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“There is no other way in which one's life will be so surely, so quickly transfigured, as in the faithful, happy, cheerful doing of every-day tasks.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Make a conscious effort to do everyday tasks with love and a cheerful attitude.
- Choose to do tasks patiently, promptly, faithfully, and cheerfully.
- Remember that doing tasks unwillingly can hurt your life, so choose to do them with a positive attitude.