Feeding on His faithfulness...

I keep finding myself returning to the fact that simple, faithful work is far more productive than highly scheduled, minutely detailed master plans. Planning and tools have their legitimate places, but usually what I really need is to prayerfully, consistently, work.

All my listing, planning, and scheduling is usually an excuse not to roll up my sleeves and accomplish what my spirit already knows. I would rather plan the perfect and grand than accomplish the seemingly mundane, fruitless, and repetitive. But that is not what God in His wisdom chooses to bless.

True, I might not have the money to finish remodeling my kitchen, but all God asks of me is to prayerfully put the little I have aside, one small bit at a time. True, I can not get my baby sleeping through the night in one day, but I can faithfully adhere to his routine one "insignificant" hour at a time. I can not get my children reading in a week, but I can fit a fifteen minute lesson in every day. I can not "determine" never to have my husband pick up dinner again, but I can faithfully prioritize one "inconvenient" meal at a time. I can not have perfectly trained children overnight, but I can lovingly, consistently train them one "mundane" moment at a time.

God calls me to work, obedience, and consistency...trusting all the while that He (not I ) will produce the peaceful fruit of righteousness. My job is not to aim for pleasure, fulfillment, and possessions. Rather, I am to work in faith know that God promises to meet all these desires when I am "dwelling in the land and feeding on His faithfulness".