Whose Work Is More Spiritual?
Is your work more spiritual than mine? Is a musician's performance more pleasing to God than a ditch digger's labor?
Thoughts from C S Lewis:
"I reject at once an idea which lingers in the mind of some modern people that cultural activities are in their own right more spiritual -- as though scholars and poets were intrinsically more pleasing to God than scaverners and bootblacks...this is a dangerous and anti-Christian error. Let us clear it forever from our minds.
The work of a Beethoven and the work of a charwoman become spiritual in precisely the same condition: that of being offered to God, as being done humbly 'as to the Lord.'
This does not mean, of course, that it is a mere toss-up whether he should sweep floors or compose symphonies.
A mole must dig to the honor of God and a cock must crow. We are members of one body, but differentiated members, each with his own vocation."
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men...It is the Lord Christ you are serving." (Colossians 3:23)
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