Today when I was mowing my lawn in the 88-degree Tennessee humidity, I had a chilling thought. The grass wasn't all that tall. What if my husband had planned to skip a week? What if I was doing all of this in vain?
Never mind the fact that I don't like housework, and was hoping that mowing and cooking dinner would suffice for today. I was putting in some serious labor! When I finished, I was EXHAUSTED! The "what-if" overrode reason and I called to make SURE he had been planning to mow. I had to know my efforts were not in vain. They weren't.
What about you? Do you ever live an entire day, week, month or year wondering if how you lived it was in vain? I have. That's when I go back to basics. God made me to enjoy Him. He enjoys me when I am simply being myself! That's quite a concept. However, if you think about how it feels to watch one of your own children enjoying themselves or expressing their individuality, you'll see the truth in my statement. Sometimes we unintentionally fulfill something in someone else's life by simply being who we are. So freeing.
I'm not saying we shouldn't pray about and then plan meaningful work accordingly. Not at all. I'm simply saying that, sometimes, we may imagine we are far from the path marked out for us when we are actually deep in the grooves of God's carriage. After all, He always goes before us. Every day of our lives matters to Him and what matters to Him should matter to us. Even those days we spent relaxing or reading, He was at work in our lives. He was guiding us. Most importantly, He was loving us and we were loving Him.
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