Lesson 103 - "Being Obedient Even When You Don't Understand Why," Part 2

How do you feel about the work you have to do? The leftover jobs that seem relegated to you? The menial or mundane? Assuming the perspective of Christ, who washed His disciples' feet, the highness or lowness of a task should actually lose all significance.

"There is no pit so deep that His great love is not deeper still." We can believe this statement when it comes from one who has been herself in that pit so deep. We identify with it keenly in our situations too.

On the evening of September 10, 2001, pilot Steve Scheibner was packing for his assignment to fly American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston the next morning at 7:45. However, at the last minute another pilot, Tom McGuinness, voluntarily took Steve’s assignment.

Self-government is the measure of a man. Irritations and mistakes are sure to arise in every home but whether they are allowed to threaten our closest relationships is a choice that is ours.