{GMG Reflection- Luke 12}

For awhile now I've been longing for something more... to do something significant with my life. I do really believe that being a stay-at-home-mom is of extreme importance and significance but I still can't shake the feeling that I was made for something more.  I don't know what it is yet and I'm trying to be patient and content while God prepares me for His plan for my life. And what I am continually realizing is that there is a lot of preparation to be done!

Luke 12:42-48 says,
And the Lord replied, "A faithful, sensible servant is one to whom the master can give the responsibility of managing his other household servants and feeding them. If the master returns and finds that the servant has done a good job, there will be a reward. I tell you the truth, the master will put that servant in charge of all he owns. But what if the servant thinks, 'My master won't be back for awhile,' and he begins beating the other servants, partying, and getting drunk? The master will return unannounced and unexpected, and he will cut the servant in pieces and banish him with the unfaithful. 

And a servant who knows what the master wants, but isn't prepared and doesn't carry out those instructions, will be severely punished. But someone who does not know, and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required."

Right now in my life God has put me in the role of wife and mother.  This involves taking care of a household, maintaining a relationship, and raising two precious children. The work involved many times feels tedious and exhausting. I ask myself too frequently, "What is the point?" The laundry will need washing again in a few days. The dishes will need cleaning again in a few hours. Someone will need to be feed again in a few minutes. Someone will need direction or correction again in a few seconds. And sometimes I throw my hands up and {momentarily} quit, letting the laundry pile up, the floors go unswept, the clean dishes waiting to be put away, the crumbs scattered on the counter, the child whining for something. And then I remember that all these things that currently irritate me, are the responsibilities God has given me.  This is the work He has prepared for me right now and He is using this work to refine me, to build my character, to prepare me for future work He has planned.

If I am seeking "greater" tasks, I must be faithful with the tasks I already have. I have been entrusted with much, with a home and a marriage and two little lives, and thus, much is required of me.