Missions Conference, pre-conference exposition
I go to meetings like these expecting God to work, and do something in us, for us, with us, on some level or other. Don't get me wrong the fellowship is tops, but I want the preaching to help me, and my family. I desire with all my heart that my children will surrender their will and lives completely to Him and His will. That might mean they will be living in a a foreign land, that my crowns will be out of arms reach, but my prayers, love, care, will be able to reach millions of miles if need be. Praise the LORD they need only reach around this orb we live upon and call earth.
Part of me wants them to be missionaries, to go where we cannot go, to do what we are not able to do. By no means are we over the hill, not quite, yet!
Since Bob's accident, and surgeries, his foot and ankle have remained weak. This is in addition to problems with his neck, and on-off problems with his lower back. The foot adds to all these, and they seem to feed off each other. Therefore, a lot of physical moving, walking, etc, he is only able to tolerate for short amounts of time.
Our children, are our legacy, for the physical and the spiritual. It amazes me how much farther along they are in spiritual matters and knowledge, and how giving they are, compared to where I was at their ages.
Being a mother taught me so much of those lessons, and still I feel utterly selfish and unlearned. In many ways, when we became parents, we began "grooming" our children to love, honor, obey, and serve. Not only their parents, but God. He has blessed our minute efforts in ways we never envisioned way back when. Which is why I am almost sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the next steps and stages.
In these years of isolation, past, present, and future, oft times I have felt rather useless for the work of the LORD. My resume' of works, by most Christians standards, are few. That is because many people view the work of the LORD and fulfilling your duties, obligations in the physical as non-spirtual work. I must confess that I think that way too. Ok, I used to think that way. What changed my mind? Paul. "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"
Changing diapers, scrubbing floors, making a pie, dusting, sweeping, washing, weeding, .... all the daily activities that encompass homekeeping and mothering, and being a wife, can glorify God.
God doesn't want us to work for the works sake. God does NOT US, I repeat, God does NOT NEED US, to do work for works sake. The Omnipotent Holy One can do all things, and do them perfectly. What He cannot do, is glorify Himself. He doesn't worship Himself. God doesn't rise from the Throne and swagger to the mirror and admire Himself, saying, Oh my, I am a Glorious God, and Oh how I worship Me. God states He is THE God, and makes known all His attitributes and glories, but that is for us to praise and worship Him. To fear Him also. He is worthy of all our glory and praise. That is what He created us to do, to bring glory to His name. He alone is worthy of it. Ladies, you can praise the LORD when the children are sick, and your umpteenth load of wash is swishing away. We can glorify God by making your husband his favorite dinner or pie, by ironing his shirt, or stroking his brow. You and I glorify Him when we hum hymns of worship, when we thank Him for His goodness, and when we love our children, and others. Matthew, I believe, wrote, "if ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto me", Jesus words' (I hope I didn't misquote that) In us, we want to be doing BIG things, that people SEE, and think LOOK at ALL they have done. Remember the tortoise and the hare....slow and steady. Doing the little everyday, seeming mundane things...being faithful...God blesses faithfulness.
The seasons of trials and struggle come and go, but being faithful will see you through....NOT because of YOU but because of Him.
I am stopping here....and I pray you are encouraged and that you will be faithful in the little things that seem/look unimportant to the world or even to the people at you church. You do right by your husband, children, and fulfill your role and duties, and God will be glorified by your service.
Do all to the Glory of God.
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