Through the past few years, God has been teaching me many lessons. Many times He chooses to teach me these lessons through the faults of those around me! After all, it's SOO much easier for us to see the wrong that others do! We, of course, do things perfectly- right?? Well, not so much! But- it's harder for us to see our own errors, especially when they are done with a pure heart! I believe that God calls us to deeper communion with Him so that we cannot not only do good, but we can do God's good!!!
When God taught me this lesson, we were preparing our house for a visit from someone- can't remember who- but that detail doesn't really matter. What I do remember is that the house REALLY needed cleaning, and as usual, we had a deficit of time! Well, our main floor was the second floor of our house. The first floor consisted of the garage, the basement, and the laundry room. For some reason, I had to be away from the house. I know it had to be a good reason, because no one in their right mind would leave a messy house with guests on the way! I did ask my husband to get things started, though! I had dreams of bathrooms being scrubbed and kitchen floors being mopped! You know- the things people will see. The things that matter when you are cleaning a house! Well, when I arrived back home, I could not find my husband. On my search of the house, I finally located him cleaning the carpet in the basement laundry room! He had worked SO hard- and the carpet down in the basement laundry room--- away from where ANYONE but God and us would see- looked GREAT!!!!!! I swallowed what I wanted to say and praised my husband for doing such a GREAT job on cleaning that basement laundry room floor! Wow did it look great! As I walked away, God told me that sometimes his children do that as well! Sometimes we work REALLY hard on something that is good, and it DOES please Him the same way our children's stick drawings please us! We put them on the refrigerator and boast at what a beautiful little artist we have! But at some point we must move beyond the stick drawings! All of our good actions please our Lord, but it is MOST pleasing and MOST helpful is when we do the thing that HE wants us to do! It is then that our work can be used for the MOST benefit to the Kingdom of Heaven!
May you all do God's will, and may the world be blessed!
Well, this is a most excellent beginning to your blog. Thanks for sharing this. It's a great reminder and one most of us can relate to, I'll bet. I'll be back to read more!
ReplyDeleteGod bless you and keep you.