I have been married to my husband for nine years. That is over 32 hundred days. If you ask him how many of those days our bed went unmade, he might say one. This does not includes days one of us woke up sick and had to stay in bed, but it does include every other day. I do not leave my house without making my bed! End of story.
In my career, and event that took place influenced me enough to never leave my house with a messy bed. You do know that they take pictures at crime scenes right? Well, I saw the right pictures and vowed to leave a neatly made bed.
This morning, I went into my son's room. He is gone for the weekend and I can not look at that unmade bed for the next three days so I made it. When we travelled to Lubbock two days ago, we had a discussion. I told him that I make his bed not because I like it but because it gives me the opportunity to pray in his room. I also told him that my sister and I don't pray for our kids "because they are bad" we pray for our kids to keep the enemy from taking hold of them. I told him that I enjoyed doing that every opportunity I got which is basically....when I make his bed.
I went back to my room and flung the comforter and added all the little pillows. As I did so, I thought "I am sooooo dedicated to making this bed everyday. I don't want anyone to come into my house and see a messy bed so why am I not that dedicated to reading my Bible first thing every morning?"
For those of you who think I am perfect, you are about to see the other side. There are days that I wake up, and even retired, I have a packed schedule. I race out of bed, shower, see my Bible at my bedside and think "I'll do it when I get back." Sometimes that does not happen and I am ashamed. How can I have such a commitment to making my bed or having a clean sink and yet I put off my devotion. I am serious about this and hear me when I say "I will not walk out of my house if there is a dish in the sink." I may be loaded down, keys in hand, alarm set and I will stop everything just to wash that dish and put it away." That "thing" in my career impacted me so much that I am now fanatical about this.
I am so concerned that someone would walk into my house in an emergency or in my absence and see dishes in the sink or a messy bed; why am I not just as concerned that Christ might come and ask if I was in the Word today? With this, I have to examine my priorities. Not that I can't remain dedicated to my chores but I must understand that my first priority should be being in the word in the morning.
The Word first, chores second and by the way, when you make your beds use that opportunity to call out to God for those that sleep in that bed and in that household. When I was little, I learned a song like this:
Read your Bible,
Pray everyday
Pray everyday
Pray everyday.
Read your Bible,
Pray everyday
and grow, grow, grow!
Time to grow...and that will only happen by doing this everyday.
As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. For he says "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of Salvation. 2 Corinthians 6:1-2
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