Whatsoever ye do

Paul wrote this line to working people — many of them servants whose labour would never be noticed, credited, or fairly paid. Into that unfairness he speaks something revolutionary: change the audience. Do the work as to the Lord.

“Whatsoever” dissolves the tidy wall between sacred and ordinary. The spreadsheet, the laundry, the difficult customer, the five hundredth school run — all of it can be done “as to the Lord,” which means none of it is wasted on a boss who did not see or a family that forgot to thank you. The One the work is really for misses nothing.

“Heartily” is the other half: from the soul, with your actual attention. Not perfectly — heartily. Half the weariness of work is doing it resentfully for the wrong audience. Today, same tasks, different Audience. Watch what it changes.