The story is told of a clergyman and an ordinary working man: a bus-driver. They arrived together at the gates of heaven. An angel gave the clergyman a plain cotton gown, a wooden halo and modest living quarters containing only the bare necessities of eternal life. To the bus-driver, the angel presented a complete wardrobe of the finest materials, a golden halo and lavish living quarters containing every imaginable luxury and convenience. When he saw this, the clergyman protested: “Why does he get so much and I so little?” The angel checked the records and said, “It seems that when you were preaching, your congregation slept; when he was driving, his passengers prayed.”
There is a great Biblical emphasis on the reality that God often comes to us most clearly in the midst of our work. In the Old Testament, Moses is doing his job as a shepherd when God appears to him in the burning bush. And around that experience of God almost…
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