Read:
Read the end of Jesus’ family tree slowly: Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Akim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan.
Beyond this list, we know nothing about these individuals. There are no stories and no recorded victories or failures. We only have their names.
Each of them still did something that mattered. They stayed faithful enough to carry the line forward, generation after generation, toward a Messiah they would never see.
We have something in common with these people. Chances are slim that anyone’s writing a record of your life and how you carried God’s kingdom forward—but that doesn’t mean your faithfulness is in vain. The most important thing is what we do, not the recognition we get for it.
Staying consistent, being kind to others, striving to fully follow God a little more each day don’t go unnoticed, even if they go unrecorded or unacknowledged. God always sees. He recognizes your effort, and it pleases him. You’re exactly where he wants you to be.
Pray: God, thank you that my ordinary life matters to you. Help me be faithful in the small, unseen things today. Amen.