DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB

Thirty years ago, I almost quit my day job.

"Jesus, please help me. I don't think I can do this another minute."

For a girl who enjoyed instant results, staying home with young children required divine intervention.

My other jobs gave me a paycheck. But this job felt like it cost me more, more, more.

"Mommy! Can I have another peanut butter and jelly? Mommy! I spilled my milk! Mommy? I missed the potty. Mommy?!”

When God hands us big shoes to fill, we question if we heard Him right.

And doubt smears across our soul like the peanut butter on our toddler’s face.

In hard and thankless seasons, we must remember:

When God gives us a job, Satan wants us to quit right away — to give up hope and abandon what feels like too much and seems to matter too little.

Because that old serpent has seen what happens when the weak and weary stake their lives on the Faithful and True.

Jesus shows up in the middle of the monotonous coming and going, washing and drying, scrubbing and wiping — giving ordinary people extraordinary strength to do the hard things.

That’s how He chose to perform His water-to-wine miracle. He assigned a few servants an impossible task: a half-dozen enormous stone jars that were bone-dry.

"Jesus said to the servants, 'Fill the jars with water'; so they filled them to the brim." John 2:7

There were no spigots nearby, so they had to take the steps. Back and forth. Back and forth, wearing a path from the well to the jars and back again. 

When they thought they were close to done, the crowd shouted, "More! We need more!"

Jesus could have provided a shortcut. Instead, He rewarded their hard work with something no one had ever seen before.

Taking little faithful steps, the servants helped usher a miracle into the world.

If those servants were here today, they'd tell you straight.

Don't quit your day job. Nothing is impossible with God.

Just when we think we’re off the clock and everyone has their fill, God hands us another assignment—one that pays in more miracles.

"Grandma! Can I have another peanut butter and jelly? Grandma! I spilled my milk! Grandma? I missed the potty.”

“Grandma?!"