Lets be honest here - sometimes I can be selfish. Full honest - Often, I can be selfish.
I don't think I deserve the type of day I am handed. Why must there be more dishes, another load of laundry, another mess, for goodness sake keep the pillows on the couch... all thoughts that rush through my head daily. It is usually moments after I have those thoughts that God gently brings me back to examine, what do I really deserve. None of this. I deserve none of it. I am gifted the ability to live a healthy life, to worship the creator of it all, to mentor and train the children that God has loaned me, to walk with Him on this journey that will only last a short time in history. I did not earn that, I was gifted that.
So what do they deserve?
To be loved. To be safe. Those two things alone would break your heart if you think about the number of children who do not have them. To have someone to call their own.
To be known.
To know Him.
Days when I want to throw in the towel, to say I deserve a more peaceful calm day, I see these precious moments and I am quickly put in my place. To trade a clean home for a child who has a place to lay their head. To sing praise songs and teach them of the God who knows their every thoughts and every needs. A hug, a mother figure, laughter. They deserve more.
May we be encouraged to continue on in the walk that God has put us on. May we live hard to serve Him, may we not stop short of His calling on our lives, whatever it may be. He has the power to work wonderful things in and through us - I love that I will not fully grasp that until the day I see Him face to face. Until then I do not want to live blinded by my selfish desires, may God strip those away and let me see the beautiful lives that He has put in my hands to care for.
What a blessing!
‘I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.’ Matt 25.40
