Today's Daily Lesson comes from Romans chapter 12 verses 3 through 8:
3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgement, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 4For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function,5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. 6We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; 7ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching;8the exhorter, in exhortation; the giver, in generosity; the leader, in diligence; the compassionate, in cheerfulness.
We are not to despise our own calling; neither are we to despise another's.
The spoon does not envy the knife because he gets to cut the meat. If the spoon was envious, I would remind him that at least in our house the knife also has to cut the cheese. The spoon forgets about that! Every piece of silverware has its honors and its distastes. But we need them all.
A spoon will not be asked how well he filet for the statesman. He will be asked whether or not he was able to carry the rice cereal to the baby's mouth. That was his job; and there was no more important job in the world.
Oftentimes along the way, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his memorable "Street Sweeper" sermon. In it he reflected on the calling of the street sweeper:
"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"
God has called us to do our job -- no one else's. God has called me to be me -- and not somebody else. Let me be the best me I can be. Let me be the Michaelangelo of me.
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