Do What You LOVE to Do!!

Often I say to my kids "you don't have to if you want to" Think about it for a minute...it is really quite true. I hear friends say things like "I hate to cook" or "I hate to clean" or " I hate doing laundry" or whatever.

I've been noticing signs of this thought pattern around my house lately, coming from my girls, which undeniable must stem from me...(ouch!)  So, I've been thinking...

What if we LOVED to cook, to clean and to do laundry?  You've heard the advice "Do what you love", right?  We can change our minds! God's Word says that we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

 "Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect." Romans 12:2 NLT

Who are we working for anyway? It takes more than natural love to face the piles of work that we mothers do. It takes doing it for God and His Glory! After all, Jesus Christ humbled himself and became a SERVANT!!

⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

⁹ Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

¹⁰ That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

¹¹ And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

¹³ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

¹⁵ That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

¹⁶ Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Philippians 2

Change your thinking while you work. Make dinner for your family because you LOVE them and want to serve them. Set the table, make it beautiful, smile! While you clean, thank God for busy people who come and go and track dirt in. Thank Him for the little hands that get the bathroom towel dirty while washing up. Thank Him for providing clothing (galore around here) for all seasons. And for the washer and dryer or clothesline. For the strength to work. Thank Him for everything!

"In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God is Christ Jesus concerning you" 1 Thes.  5:18

^{I Corinthians 10:31} So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.