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LONELY SERVICE.

One of the duties that we are rostered on to do in our congregation, is hall cleaning. Once a week, the people who are rostered on will go in and mop the floors, vacuum, clean windows and toilets, and generally tidy up. On other occasions we have a working bee around our hall, when lots of volunteers will turn up to tidy up, renovate or whatever needs doing. It’s easy to spend quite a few hours at a working bee, helping other people and working together. But doing my duty of hall cleaning, though it usually takes less than a couple of hours, can really drag through doing it alone.

Serving at the temple during the day must have been a pleasure. People would be in and out all day, it would be busy, and it would seem like it had barely started before it was time to finish. But those serving at the temple at night could have found it quite different. When nobody else is around it is harder to keep up our motivation.

So the psalmist encouraged and prayed for those on night shift. “Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD.” (Psa 134:1).

Let us also encourage and pray for those who are serving the Lord alone, or in lonely times. They need our prayers and support.

Robert Prins

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