It is very easy to think that what we do in church on Sunday morning is the most important spiritual accomplishment of the week. A church service is a wonderful thing. It can be very refreshing and help us to focus our attention back on the Lord. The rest of the week can seem mundane and empty spiritually by comparison. It can be difficult to see the eternal value in our everyday lives.

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There is very little record of Christ's first 30 years on earth. My guess is that He probably lived a very ordinary life for the time period. He was a carpenter like His father. It was an average trade for the average family. He experienced the menial, routine life. He felt what you feel. Yet, even before His ministry on earth began God declared that He was "well pleased" with Christ's life.

One of the ways that God is pleased is when we bring Him glory in our lives. He is in control of the entire universe and nothing happens that is outside of His oversight. He also gave us the capacity to bring Him honor and glory in every moment of our lives. The fact is that we spend most of our lives in menial tasks. We sit in traffic, wait for the subway, run errands, go to work everyday and many other routine events or experiences.

Let us remember that God made this world and everything in it. The truth is that if we do all things for His glory, an uneventful day in our eyes can have eternal value as we live it to the glory of the Creator of the universe.

Everything we do that glorifies God lasts forever because He lasts forever. We must lift our eyes off of the temporary circumstances on earth and see everything as an opportunity to participate in the eternal worship of God. Events pass, memories fade, emotions settle but honoring God lasts forever.