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Fixing Elevators - All Our Daily Bread Daily Devotionals for 2024

Fixing Elevators details logo    Our Daily Bread - Thursday, September 18, 2020
  by RBC Ministries
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Fixing Elevators

Bible in a Year: Proverbs 30-31, 2 Corinthians 11:1-15

Love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:18

Today's Scripture & Insight: Leviticus 19:9-18

Sarah has a rare condition that causes her joints to dislocate, making her reliant on an electric wheelchair to get around. On her way to a meeting recently, Sarah rode her wheelchair to the train station but found the elevator broken. Again. With no way of getting to the platform, she was told to take a taxi to another station forty minutes away. The taxi was called but never arrived. Sarah gave up and went home.

Unfortunately, this is a regular occurrence for Sarah. Broken elevators stop her from boarding trains, forgotten ramps leave her unable to get off them. Sometimes Sarah is treated as a nuisance by railway staff for needing assistance. She's often close to tears.

Out of the many biblical laws governing human relationships, "love your neighbor as yourself" is key (Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:8-10). And while this love stops us from lying, stealing, and abusing others (Leviticus 19:11, 14), it also changes how we work. Employees must be treated fairly (v. 13), and we should all be generous to the poor (vv. 9-10). In Sarah's case, those who fix elevators and drag out ramps aren't doing inconsequential tasks but offering important service to others.

If we treat work as just a means to a wage or other personal benefit, we will soon treat others as annoyances. But if we treat our jobs as opportunities to love, then the most everyday task becomes a holy enterprise.

By: Sheridan Voysey

Reflect & Pray
Why do you think we can become annoyed at someone needing extra assistance? How can you turn your job into a channel of love today?


Father, a job is never just a job to You but an opportunity to love You and serve others. Help me to see my work as an opportunity to benefit others today.





 

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