Your assignment.
I visited a gentle, godly man recently. He had been a university President. Then his wife got sick and he quit to take care of her. For thirteen years. He wanted to do it. He kept talking about it being his “assignment.”
What’s yours? How do you know what your assignment is?
It’s the thing you have to do. You don’t have a choice.
In school, you had a homework assignment. You had to do it.
And now, it might be to raise godly kids. It might be to go to work today. It might be a tough conversation you’re not looking forward to. It might be waiting for who knows how long. It might be doing something hard that no one will ever know about.
It might be all those crazy government forms I didn’t want to fill out today—I put off that assignment for months. I had been pretending it was just a chore, not an assignment.
How do you know that’s your assignment, as if it’s from God? Because you know you have to do it, and because you say you believe God loves you, and that he knows and controls all. Yes, he might change it. But, until he does, this is it.
So trust it’s from him and do it. Knowing it’s from him changes everything.
