“O my Father, give me eyes to see, a heart to respond, and hands and feet to serve you wherever you encounter me! Make me a billboard of your grace, a living advertisement for the riches of your compassion. I long to hear you say to me one day, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’ And I pray that today I would be that faithful servant who does well at doing good. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen” (Max Lucado).

That’s not a bad prayer for the upcoming week.

Most of us already are dreading the upcoming week. All those emails. All those tasks. All those deadlines. We look at the overflowing inbox and think that there’s absolutely no way to get it all done.

But what if we changed our focus? What if we choose to see our job as our place of ministry? What if we decided to be a witness in our workplace? What if we remembered that ultimately we’re not working for a boss or a supervisor but as unto the Lord Himself?

20 years from now, those tasks and emails won’t matter nearly as much as the people we work with. It won’t matter if you checked everything off your task-list if you didn’t make a kingdom impact on the people around you.

As much as I want to be praised for good work, what I really want to hear at the end of the day — and at the end of my life — is to hear Jesus say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”