Frustration.
I felt lots of it while completing just a few simple tasks today.
Nothing out of the ordinary...simply folding papers and preparing envelopes.
But I was little miss cranky pants who wanted to go home and rest.
I kept thinking about what else I could've been doing.
It's frightening to see how full of sin I am
and how quickly I can fall back.
Changing.
I noticed my attitude shifts depending on what I'm doing
not whom I'm doing it for.
While I joyfully taught Bible stories to children under the Oklahoma sun last month,
folding pamphlets for next week's worship service seemed like such a chore today.
If only I saw each task as a pleasing sacrifice to the one and only.
Would I be just as joyful serving my family by taking the trash out
as I would be in babysitting the little ones from church?
Jesus said, "One who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much" (Luke 16:10),
but was I really being faithful in the little task that was given me
when I was grumbling in my heart? sigh.
Dear heart,
why so prone to forget?
why so prone to rebel?
why so selfish in all your ways?
Unchanging.
Jesus.
I need to cling to You.
Daily. Moment by Moment.
Every day I am tempted.
Tempted to take the crown
fully knowing that its weight will crush me.
Lord of my life, help me. Forgive me. Heal me.
"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." -Cor. 10:31
