Lesson Three - Exploring Grace Section 3

Luke 17:10
"So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, 'We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.' "

a. According to Luke 17:10 what sort of attitude are we to have about the things we do for the Lord?
We should be humble, not proud because we are only doing what we were supposed to do.

b. How easy is it for you to feel that way.
At work, the reward for a job well done is the job being done well - it's of course nice when we get noticed for doing well, but somehow we seem to expect that not only will we be thanked for doing it, but that we will be rewarded further. It is hard to look at it as just doing our job. It is even harder when we see other people not doing their jobs getting special dispensations or gr attitude in front of us when they do the smallest part of their job when we don't get thanked for going above and beyond.

It's sort of like that clause in your job description that says "and other duties as assigned by management." When the big boss is coming and your boss tells you to go clean the bathroom... sometimes you just want to say "that's not my job" - but really, whatever he tells you to do is your job. God is the manager, and everything he says we should do... Sometimes it's hard to see it that way.