I am exhausted today. I don’t know why, I just am.
As I put ANOTHER load of laundry in, I have to admit….I wasn’t doing it joyfully. I was irritated. And grumpy. And feeling kinda sorry for myself if you want the whole ugly truth.
Suddenly, I had a random, crystal clear flashback to college. I was at a church service and my prayer was, “I want to be like JESUS. No matter what that makes my life look like, I want to be like HIM.”
Today, this made me chuckle. Seriously…I meant doing great and mighty things for the Kingdom. I meant sharing the Gospel, traveling to the nations, or healing the sick! I meant living a radical life for HIM! That’s what I meant by, “I want to be like JESUS.”
And then it hit me.
Mommas, maybe THIS is GODS way of making us like Jesus.
When no one notices.
When we feel alone.
When we do the work others don’t want to.
When we put our family above ourselves.
When we keep going, even in exhaustion.
When we forgive them, over and over.
When we take time to correct in love.
When we wipe the dirty noses.
When we teach, again and again.
When we change the messy diapers.
When we hold the hands of those who need us.
When we love them more than we love ourselves.
Actually, that sounds a lot of like what HE did for us….loving, forgiving, fixing, correcting, caring, giving, serving.
Maybe these seemingly insignificant tasks aren’t meaningless. Maybe it doesn’t matter that they are overlooked and sometimes unappreciated.
Maybe what really matters is that each of these tasks really are making us more like Jesus….and truly, there is no higher calling.
