Security Deposit

Recently, my housemates and I had to move out of our house because the owner wanted to sell it.  So we packed up and did a "quick move" to another house.  Then we spent a long time cleaning the house.  And not the standard "bachelor" clean, we did a very thorough job. After spending all that time cleaning, we got a 3 page email from the real estate agent detailing things needing cleaning.  So we went in for round 2.  At least several times during the cleaning I heard people saying that they couldn't tell where they had already cleaned, because it looked the same after scrubbing.

I was thinking about this today and I realized how often God has asked me to do things that don't seem to bear fruit, things that just seem to keep going on pointlessly.  I want to ignore those things as being a waste of my time, and only do the ones that seem to make sense, or the ones I really want to do.  I often find myself trying to do a sort of spiritual triage, picking out what I consider to the most valuable or important of what God has told me to do, ignoring some things that seem less important.  I try to avoid things that aren't up to my standard of importance.  But, it isn't my standard that matters, I don't own the house.  I have to follow the owner's standard (at least if I want my security deposit back).