Our Home...right now

Our home at times can feel like a hospital.

Our home at times can feel relentlessly filled with one mess after another to pick up.

Our home acts as a theatre, performance hall, restaurant, and play house.

Our home is a school.

Our home shares deep intimacy.

Our home is beckoning other couples to grow their marriage.

Our home offers kindness as well as impatience and unkindness.

We love to love...and we love to be selfish and withholding.

We love play time and we love down time. 

I had been reading Jesus, a devotional written by Beth Moore.

Something she wrote stopped me a bit.

 

"Every believer is summoned by Christ to work with Him here on earth,

Christ knows more about our jobs than we do.  Christ knows every detail

associate with your job. And every area is His specialty."  Wow!  I love that

 Jesus knows what it is to a homemaker.

 

And "Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience."

Sometimes we do what is front of us soley based on the fact that God has us in

that spot for that job. 

 

Beth continues, "The same job subjected to Christ's authority can

yield entirely different results."  She wrote about how Peter after listening

to Jesus and responding to His authority cast his net and yielded a great result.

His fishing partner was Jesus.  We also may need a new partner in our work.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not

for me, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as

a reward.  It is the Lord Christ you are serving. (1 Col. 3:23-24) 

It is so easy for me in these days to order my world and everyone in it.

In our home, I constantly have to redirect and bring order to our days so that learning

happens, conflicts are resolved, and those sharing our home feel welcomed and their healing is

given a place to happen.  This is good and true to a point.  But I can easily feel I begin to instruct

everyone around me (including the adults) and feel the call that "I have to maintain

order!"  I have felt (not listened as much as I need) to be quiet.  I also need

to continually partner with Jesus.  I am not so good at that. 

This sign hangs in my laundry room.

Not only do I need to partner with Him, but to know I am working for the

Lord.  We are in "it" and from Him comes all the direction and

strength I need to complete any task....or not to complete a task and just be!