Gray Tasks

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Sometimes at work, I am given gray tasks. I call them gray tasks because they are not black (tasks that I know I can’t do) and they are not white (the ones I can do in my sleep). For me, the gray ones to me are usually the most difficult tasks to do so instead of channeling all of my energy into doing them; I just keep going back and forth looking for other things to do in order to have an excuse for why I haven’t been able to finish it. Sometimes, it comes back to bite me but most times, I get away with it and find the courage to work later.

Moses must have felt like it was a gray task when God asked him to go to Egypt. I mean, it wasn’t like he was dumb and couldn’t speak at all but he felt it was going to be massively embarrassing for him to go before a king and stammer. Nobody will ever take him seriously because of his speech defect and so he pleaded with God to send someone else. It should have been reassuring since God said “…Now go! I will be with you as you speak and I will instruct you in what to say…” (Exodus 4:12) but even after that Moses still asked God to send another person.

When we are faced with gray tasks anywhere, one of the easiest things to do is to list a million and one reasons why we can’t do that thing instead of focusing on the one reason why we can. If God asks us to do something, we can be rest assured that He will send the appropriate help required to get the job done and he will give us the needed strength, courage and ability to get it done. If God would supply help for His own tasks, then how difficult is it for Him to supply help for the things you have to do at work or anywhere else?

So would you rather trust God and focus on the one reason why you can or will you focus on the gray areas and keep picking out reasons why you can’t?