Rotten Bananas and the Glory of God

This semester I am working in the GeeDunk, the on-campus student cafe here at Grove City College.  Usually I am upstairs cooking food and serving people, but today I was down in the basement cutting cookies and doing other menial tasks.  It was a little disappointing, because I like the upstairs atmosphere a lot better.

Towards the end of my shift, the task given to me was to cut up over-ripe bananas for use in smoothies.  It was gross work, and I was just trying to get done with it, until the Holy Spirit brought Colossians 3:23-24 to my mind:

"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward.  You are serving the Lord Christ."

This truth transformed the rest of my shift.  No longer was I just doing menial labor, cutting up cookies and bananas by myself in the basement.  Menial labor became servanthood, and rotten bananas became worship.  I love how the knowledge of God can permeate even the most mundane, infusing it with glory.  I love the fact that, in Christ, I can cut rotten bananas to the glory of God.