The Mirror reports:
A man claims God told him to start digging a hole 18 years ago, and he literally hasn’t stopped since.
Santiago Sanchez, 69, says he regards it as the Lord’s work and he devotes every waking hour to the project.
The pensioner heads to the tunnel in the city of Berlin, in western El Salvador, at around 3 AM.
And every time he emerges he is carrying around 90 pounds of rock, stones and debris, following what God told him.
… It is no easy task, and the journalist who went into the tunnel to have a look confessed that by the time he got halfway, was struggling to breathe and had to leave quickly.
Because nobody else other than Santiago has ever been to the end, he is the only one who knows how far it actually goes but after 18 years, it is believed to be some way.
… Despite his conviction that he is following God’s orders, he has many critics and many more who laugh at what he is doing.
His wife, named Isabel Ventura, said that “there are people who say that he is crazy” but he answers that “no one knows what God is going to demand from you.”
Is Santiago Sanchez doing God’s will by digging a hole in the middle of the jungle? He certainly thinks he is, and that may be all that matters. Here’s the really interesting thing about God’s will; it can be attached to anything you do, even the most mundane of activities.
The Bible says, “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving” (Colossians 3:23-24). That means any task can become a divine calling, if it’s done with the right motivation!
The real question isn’t whether Mr. Sanchez is doing God’s will, but are you? If you flip hamburgers, you can choose to flip hamburgers for the Lord, or you can flip hamburgers for the pay. Every person in every walk of life and vocation can choose to serve God there.
It doesn’t take a special revelation from God to discover His will for your life. It just takes a heart that wants to please God in all circumstances.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).
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“‘God told man to start digging hole’ in jungle 18 years ago – and he hasn’t stopped since,” by MIRROR.CO.UK, September 27, 2016; < http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/god-told-man-start-digging-8926342?ICID >.