“Even while we go about the exhausting work of motherhood that often feels so futile, we can be about what we’re going to be about forever.”
Gloria Furman, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full
There’s a thought for today. When I’m tempted towards frustration and groanings, how can I lean instead into mercies and hallelujahs?
"I exalt You, my God and King, and bless Your name forever and ever. I will bless You every day; I will praise Your name forever and ever. The Lord is great and is highly praised; His greatness is unsearchable." Psalm 145:1-3
May my every day reflect my forever and ever calling: to exalt my God and King.
And though His greatness be unsearchable, still I will search Him out, delighting in His Word and ways and wonders, and invite my children alongside of me to “taste and see with me that the Lord is good!” (Psalm 34:8).
It is often difficult to remember Jesus in the overwhelm of motherhood, but why? There are so many voices, so much noise competing for our attention. But, we can be intentional about which ones we listen to. Weary mommas, fill your ears and minds with voices that speak truth, that point to the gospel of grace.
Have you read Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full by Gloria Furman? My own worn copy is coffee and tear-stained, overflowing with highlighted and underlined portions, and note after hand-written note in the margins. I appreciate the message of this book because it reminds me to lift my eyes off of myself and my circumstances and onto Christ, the gospel, and eternity.
In the midst of the mundane and the whirlwind of daily decisions that we face as mothers, it is the gospel of grace and truth that anchors and sustains us. Gloria reminds us to “stamp eternity on our eyeballs.” We have the opportunity to make every moment, every trial, every weight an offering unto the Lord.
The book bears the subtitle: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms. According to Merriam-Webster, to meditate means we “engage in contemplation or reflection.” Gospel contemplation is exactly what we need to engage in: remembering and rehearsing His all-sufficient grace, His power made perfect in our many weaknesses, (2 Corinthians 12:9). Through His power that works mightily in us, we truly can “be about what we’re going to be about forever.”
I exalt You, my God and King! “Oh, magnify the Lord with me, let us exalt His name together!” (Psalm 34:3).
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