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Chores are something none of us enjoy doing. In Master’s Commission, we each have our own chore that we do and then there are several chores that we all do together. Whether or not we want to do them, they have to be done. Every day or every week, depending on the chore; they have to be done.

I was able to go home for a week over Christmas break this year, and, while I was there, we got like 3 feet of snow and it was blizzarding almost the whole week and we ended up having to dig our driveway out almost every day. I was very grateful for my dad’s snow plow, let me tell you. Anyway, Wednesday night is youth night at my church and, even though it was just a couple days before Christmas, the youth leaders were still planning to have service. I was all excited about going and being able to see all the youth for the first time in 3 months. Youth group ended up being cancelled, however, due to the terrible weather. I was so disappointed that I couldn’t go, and so, to get myself out of the funk I was in, I decided I was going to spend some time with Jesus, which I did and it was wonderful and I got out of my bad mood, but later on, after a 3-movie marathon, I was laying in bed just thinking about how good felt to not have to worry about my quiet time because I’d done it earlier...gotten it out of the way...and God really convicted me. He asked me, “Is that what I am to you? A chore?”

So many times we get caught up in the, “We have to do this, we have to do that. We have to worship God and we have to read our Bibles and we have to pray and we have to spend time with God,” that God becomes a chore to us rather than a privilege. He becomes something we dread rather than Someone we long to be with.

If you think about it, here in America, we’re so blessed. The government doesn’t persecute us for our faith and there are laws in place to keep others from doing so. In other nations around the world, where Christians have to remain hidden to keep themselves alive, they consider it a privilege to worship God. They’re willing to sacrifice their lives for something we consider a chore. Maybe it’s time for us to remember what a privilege it actually is to be a follower of Christ.

-Kaitlin Pederson