In Ministering...

"Ministering in everyday opportunities means

 being available in any of the seemingly

 random surroundings He has engineered for us. 

The things Jesus did were the most menial of everyday tasks, 

and this is an indication that it takes all of God's power in me

 to accomplish even the most common tasks in His way. 

Can I use a towel as He did? 

Towels, dishes, sandals, and all the other ordinary things 

in our lives reveal what we are made of more quickly

 than anything else. 

It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us

 to do the most menial duty as it ought to be done."

 --Oswald Chambers, 

from the My Utmost for His Highest Perpetual Calendar.

This message is especially precious to me as recently, 

God asked me to fast over a weekend as I struggled through

some perplexing things, saying He had some things to 

tell me.

So...I obeyed, and He called me to go deeper in

my vision of wifehood and motherhood.

Some specific things He asked to to change

for the ongoing good of my place in the family

and for helping my husband

I was already heading towards,

but my! What answers we get

when we ask.

I had to think of this time as I read

the Oswald Chambers' devotional above.

My heart echoes Brother Elliot's words

as well...

I was thinking alot since that weekend

how that, to many, and even to myself sometimes,

the ministry of motherhood and being a wife

may seem mundane and menial much of the time.

However,

if I see it as the ministry I have been given,

to be the hands and feet of Jesus to

my husband and children

then even towels and mops are

instruments of heaven

for the good of the family.

Take heart in whatever ministry

God has called you to,

and throw your whole heart into it.

You are being a world changer,

making a difference if you

put your heart into being

fully engaged where He called you.