Saturday, July 19, 2014

Unloosed!

A powerful post on motherhood from Rachel Jankovic at Femina:
The strongest women in our world today are those who are as a group feeling the weakest. It certainly doesn’t feel like a blow for the kingdom to spend another nine months in a brain fog. It doesn’t feel like we are fighting for the future of our country as we drive strollers with one elbow so we can hold one fat defiant hand while sloshing coffee on ourselves with the other.
But His strength is made perfect in our weakness. He loves the obedience of the widows mite – the offering of the littlest thing that is our everything. It can seem so petty and uninteresting when what you are putting in the offering box is giving up sleeping in. Or joyfully driving the mini van that you never wanted. Or spending Friday nights folding laundry and picking up board books. But God delights in that, and He delights in us as we obey.
Do we want to spend our time giving little things that delight our Savior, or trying desperately to please the world? The world might be pleased with us if we stood for hours in our stupid sneakers fighting for a woman’s right to kill her children, but they will never applaud us for being inconvenienced and actually carrying those children.
What we are failing to see is that this weakness haunts us so much when we want to rely on our own strength. But this weakness is His to strengthen. This weakness is the greatest offering that we can give – because it is the offering of obedience.

1 comment:

  1. The King Casino - Atlantic City, NJ | Jancasino
    Come on in the King Casino for fun, no wagering requirements, delicious dining, and https://jancasino.com/review/merit-casino/ enjoyable casino gaming https://octcasino.com/ all หาเงินออนไลน์ at the heart 1xbet login of https://febcasino.com/review/merit-casino/ Atlantic City.

    ReplyDelete