The beginning of the film Antz opens with the protagonist laying on a counsellor’s couch baring his heart and soul. “When you’re the middle child of five million you don’t get much attention…” He talks about how he feels inadequate and how “handling dirt is not my idea of a rewarding career…” The whole system makes him feel insignificant to which the counsellor replies,

“Excellent, you’ve made a real breakthrough.”

“I have?”

“Yes Z. You are insignificant.”

Boom. Perhaps sometimes you feel like the middle child of the 7.5 billion people that are on this planet. Pretty insignificant, unseen, unknown and like day in day out all you’re dealing with is a pile of dirt.

1 Corinthians 15:58 says, “Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.” The message translation says we can be confident that nothing we do for God is “a waste of time or effort”.

So as you get back into your work routines after some time off (particularly if you feel like it’s not your idea of a rewarding career!), as you go to school and take the same lessons day in day out, as you sit in your apartment with no plans for the day, as you change your baby’s nappy for the millionth time and respond to the continual questions of your toddler – take heart – and know that you can love and serve Jesus even here. You are seen in the day to day, the mundane, the moment by moment decisions and choices.

Choose to dedicate each moment to the Lord and know that you are never insignificant. Your work might not be seen by many others, but Jesus sees, and His Word promises that nothing you do for him is ever wasted.