Keep on keepin' on
There will always be dishes to wash, laundry to clean & fold, floors to vacuum etc. It's just part of life. We need to accept that, and learn to rejoice that there is enough food to make the dishes dirty, clothes to clean and a home to keep up.
(Same principle with work and just about anything else we can think of.)
As in our walk with God. We ALWAYS need Him, so keep praying, keep studying His Word, keep seeking Him, thanking Him, rejoicing in Him and trusting Him....
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
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Obedience is better than Sacrifice
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Often I learn the meaning of scripture through every day occurrences that I can most easily relate to.
On this particular occasion, I was a full-time housewife with no children. I had been married a few years and had come to know the Lord at the same time.
One morning when my husband was on his way to work, he noticed the dirty dishes piled high in the sink and while kissing me goodbye, he sweetly asked me if I would please just do the dishes that day. I said I would.
I've always been 'domestically challenged'. I just hate housework. But, that day I felt inspired to do a thorough job of cleaning the house. As I recall, I spent much of the day working and sweating to make the house immaculate. It was quite a big job. I was very proud of the hours I'd spent and all the hard work I had done. I did everything BUT the dishes.
When my huz came home from work, I rambled on and on about how hard I had worked to clean the house, but what he mostly noticed was I didn't do the one.....relatively small....thing he had asked me to do. He wasn't angry with me, just a little disappointed.
It was at that time the Lord showed me the meaning of obedience is better than sacrifice.
1 Sam 15:22-23 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Trust
I often wish I could communicate with our little birds so they would better understand me....as sometimes they seem to be afraid of me.
One day I was praying and asking the Lord how can I "reach" them and help them to understand that I don't want to harm them and they can trust me?
I got the impression He was thinking "Good question!!" (As though He sometimes wonders that about us.)
Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."