Lately it seems as though I have been spinning my wheels. I do the dishes so we can dirty them, I chip away at the bottomless pit I call a laundry basket and I change my daughters dirty diapers while she twists and screams like it’s water boarding.
Do The Things We Do As Moms Really Matter?
I find myself asking, does any of this stuff really matter? The truth is, it does, but not in the way you may think. The laundry will return. The dishes will get dirty. My daughter will assault another diaper. I have been working so hard, but the Holy Spirit is showing me that I have really been trying to look to home making as the source of my happiness. The truth is the details of our day to day life may differ, but our goal should be the same. Seek God and show His love to others.
What Is Life Really About?
Nothing in this world we can get our hands on can generate true peace. Because each of us are created for fellowship with God, being in His presence is the meaning to life. He can use obedience in our everyday tasks as an open door for that presence, but all the empty laundry baskets and marked through checklist won‘t bring us what we are really looking for. Peace and joy are found through our worship to him.
Worship is not just the 3 fast, 2 slow song combination we sing on Sunday. It’s a posture of life. We do the dishes not to get Gods attention or to earn His love, because we could never earn what has has already been so freely given. We do the dishes because we are thankful for what God has blessed us with. We change the dirty diapers not just to ward off rashes and smells but because God entrusted us with our children and we are the first example of God’s love towards them. Every little task we do speaks to that. We should be focusing on allowing all we do to glorify God, instead of letting all we do pull us away from spending time with him.
How Do We Focus More On God?
Does that mean we now have to love stinky diapers and dirty dishes? No! Nope! Uh Uh! No more than Christ loved going to the cross. When you put the two in context, I mean really, what’s a load of laundry any way? When Jesus prayed in the garden God have him the strength he needed to complete the task at hand and He is up for the job in our hearts as well.
The scripture above means that if we give God permission, he can begin to cut away the parts of our selves that create separation betweeen us and him. But that takes time spent in the word and in Gods presence.
So I say lets face those diapers and dishes head on, hand in hand with God. Allow him to use life to teach us more about Himself and who he created us to be!
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Journey To A Virtuous Woman 
I can do all things through Christ whom strengthens me. I know that we have the hardest job raising another human but moms are so special. We are super humans!
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