1 Chronicles 28:9-10
“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. Consider now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a temple as a sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.”
Being that I am to turn seventeen on Monday, my mind has been thinking on things of the future. Just realizing that I know people who have married at the ages of 19 and 20 has me thinking about myself. I obviously know that God has a different plan for everyone, but what if the Lord brings me a husband in the next few years? What if? Well, I need to be prepared. Not just prepared to run a household, but be spiritually matured in Christ. Just in this past week I can tell that the Lord is maturing myself in Him. I’ve been in prayer, and in the Word mostly daily, and sometimes multiple times. God has also given me joy in helping in my dad’s lawn care business even when usually I’m sick and tired of being in the summer heat all day and don’t feel like I have joy. On the outside or the inside. What’s the Lord doing? I guess I won’t know now…but I can be preparing myself. Momma says how important it is to learn how to submit under your earthly father now so that the transition from submitting under him to a husband will be made easier. And not just that it will be easier but it will also be glorifying to God. Besides, children are to honor their father and mother and wives to submit to their husbands quietly. So if you are always practicing submission, will it not be made easier? Or maybe not easier but rather a habit of which the Lord would bless. Submission will always be hard for women, but when displayed, glorifying to our Father. It is ultimately what we are called to.
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