Meaningful Mundane....

You know we are in the thick of it young mamas.  Parenting is draining, fostering our marriages is work, putting relationships first takes sacrifice, cleaning the house-tiring, folding clothes is boring, ironing is time consuming, grocery shopping a challenge to find healthy cost efficient foods that make little mouths happy, but we must find meaning in the mundane.  We are called to something higher than ourselves, something far beyond that-something of eternal significance.  

Here are some thoughts taken from Oswald Chambers:

"He that believeth in Me....out of him shall flow..." John 7:38

~"He that believeth in Me out of him shall flow rivers of living water" -hundreds of other lives will be continually refreshed.  It is time now to break the life, to cease craving for satisfaction, and to spill the thing out.  Our Lord is asking who of us will do it for Him?"

Ladies, are the people in our homes refreshed by us?  Do we encourage, support, submit to our husbands, and nurture our children?  Begin there, impact those to whom The Living God has entrusted to us and from there the hundred will come...generation after generation.  Is the fruit of the Spirit evident in you at home?   I believe that is the hardest place to yield ourselves, but ladies may I exhort us, the MOST IMPORTANT place.  Don't get me wrong, we need to be involved and investing in others outside our home, but don't miss the most important area of serving Him right now...love well those that He has given you.  It is tiring, but aren't all things that are of most significance worth the exhaustion?  After all, We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.  It is not me mustering up enough "spiritual stamina" to do the right thing.  It is relying wholly on the Supplier of all that I need and dying to myself, not at the end of my rope, but before I ever get started.  Be encouraged friends, serve Him well and the fruit will be generation after generation....