The Drudgery of Life

October 15

Life can make us feel like quite the drudge at times. Our daily routine can seem tedious and uninspiring. Our interaction with people can leave us feeling frustrated and disappointed. The process of taking one step forward and sliding two steps back can literally ‘dog our heels.’

It isn’t merely the ordinary tasks and challenges of the days and weeks and months and years as they unfold that weary us in their ordinariness, it’s also the exacerbating conflicts between governments and ideologies that have a sobering impact upon our psyche.

The things we can’t control tend to make us feel like we’re struggling for unattainable goals; that we’re pursuing vapors of air that will fade away even as we grasp for them. We long to believe our efforts will enable us to prepare our children for productive lives and ourselves for a comfortable future, but things loom before us that threaten to undo our efforts toward such goals. Evil seems rampant and our power to constrain it is limited.

But, we have hope that goes beyond ourselves and our own frail efforts. Paul, writing to the Romans said in Chapter 16, verse 20, “The God who brings peace will soon defeat Satan and give you power over him. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.” The drudgery of life cannot overwhelm you; evil cannot weigh you down! Jesus has promised victory to His people! He tells us we are more than conquerors over the mundanity of life and over the wiles of the enemy!