It's been almost two months since I've written a blog post. This hiatus was certainly not my intention and I hate that I haven't kept up with writing. Granted, I am not a writer, but thought this would be a good avenue to encourage, bless, challenge, etc. So, I've come to write a very brief post about a song I heard on the radio yesterday. The song is Steven Curtis Chapman's Do Everything. I have actually heard the song many times before but I've never actually listened to the very first verse. It was SO encouraging to me:
You're picking up toys on the living room floor
For the fifteenth time today
Matching up socks and sweeping up lost Cheerios that got away
You put a baby on your hip and color on your lips
And head out the door
And while I may not know you I bet I know you
Wonder sometimes does it matter at all?
Well let me remind you it all matters just as long
As you do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace
With every move that you make
And every little thing you do
This came as such an encouragement to me as just that very morning, I was thinking, "I think I pick up more cheerios than Samuel puts in his mouth." Funny how a song can express my very thoughts :) Anyway, I began thinking about my own fight for joy in the everyday life of being a wife and mother. These lyrics - this biblical concept - is one secret to having joy in the mundane: Do EVERY LITTLE thing to the glory of God. For His kingdom. Because He loves you and died for you.
This song definitely helped me this morning as I was disinfecting and swiffering our entire apartment. Clearing our germies to the glory of God! Amen?
May I do everything "to bring a smile to His face" :)
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Colossians 3:17
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men. Colossians 3:23
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