{"id":4308,"date":"2009-04-14T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/april2009\/?p=82"},"modified":"2009-04-14T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:58:14","slug":"the-initiative-against-drudgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/04\/14\/the-initiative-against-drudgery\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INITIATIVE AGAINST DRUDGERY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Arise, shine.<\/p>\n<p>     &#8212; Isaiah 60:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no<br \/>\nuse to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise<br \/>\nwe find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral<br \/>\none. We must do the thing and not lie like a log. If we will arise<br \/>\nand shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.<\/p>\n<p>Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is.<br \/>\nDrudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with<br \/>\nthe ideal &#8211; the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in<br \/>\ncontact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually<br \/>\nreal. Read John 13. We see there the Incarnate God doing the most<br \/>\ndesperate piece of drudgery, washing fishermen&#8217;s feet, and He says &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8220;If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also<br \/>\nought to wash one another&#8217;s feet.&#8221; It requires the inspiration of God<br \/>\nto go through drudgery with the light of God upon it. Some people do<br \/>\na certain thing and the way in which they do it hallows that thing<br \/>\nfor ever afterwards. It may be the most commonplace thing, but after<br \/>\nwe have seen them do it, it becomes different. When the Lord does a<br \/>\nthing through us, He always transfigures it. Our Lord took on Him our<br \/>\nhuman flesh and transfigured it, and it has become for every saint<br \/>\nthe temple of the Holy Ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arise, shine. &#8212; Isaiah 60:1 We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not; but immediately we arise we find He is there. Whenever God inspires, the initiative is a moral one. We must do the thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}