A long time ago, in a far and distant land, I was a soldier. To my back was the 1,200 mile Namib desert and to the front was the enemy. As an infantry soldier we would spend two weeks patrolling and protecting the border – followed by a week in the base camp. Near the end of the week in base camp we would start complaining about everything. The food, the water, the insects, the heat, etc. But, while on patrol we would dream of how good it was at base.

Similarly, Christians who are busy long for their weekly spiritual Sunday feast. The singing, prayers, sermon, communion, and contribution times are wonderful. With great fervor they sing:

To the work! to the work! we are servants of God,

Let us follow the path that our Master has trod;

With the balm of His counsel our strength to renew,

Let us do with our might what our hands find to do.

Refrain: Toiling on x4: Let us hope, let us watch, And labor till the Master comes (Fanny J. Crosby, 1820-1915).

Friend, are you a functioning servant of God contently following the path that our Master has trod, or are you disgruntled and spiritually bored?

Ephesians 4:11–16 (ESV) — ¹¹ And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, ¹² to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴ so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. ¹⁵ Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.