What a busy weekend this has been! With Christmas Break coming soon, my duties as a teacher have accelerated as I try to finish strong.
I do love being a teacher. I love my students, my colleagues, and the subject that I teach. However, it is the kind of job that you are always doing -- when I'm not in the classroom, I am either tutoring students, preparing lessons, grading papers, or feeling guilty for getting behind on those things. This weekend has been no exception.
Some of my weekend has been taken up with homemaking things, though. We worked a lot on cleaning the house and putting up Christmas decorations in preparation for a church party that will be held here soon. It is so much more fun to decorate when there are actually going to be some people coming to enjoy it with us!
The Lord has been gracious to remind me of some important truths this weekend. When I feel this swamped, I am tempted to despair, feeling that I am "stuck" in this crazy, hectic lifestyle. (If only I didn't have so much grading to do; I could have been such a bigger help in the Christmas preparations!) Times like these are when I really pray for a husband, honestly more because I desire to be rescued than for any actual godly reason! I was kind of feeling mopey, worrying about how I can possibly find time to serve God when I am so busy with work.
But through a message given this weekend, the Lord reminded me that HE, the Master, is Who chooses how I serve. It is not for the servant to inform her master what impressive task she has chosen to do for Him today.
My Master has chosen to have me serve, at least for now, in a Christian ministry. If we are so short on personnel that I have to be this busy, then I should be delighted to pitch in and work as hard as I can for His glory and help to meet this need. God is not glorified by my grumbling, half-hearted service: He loves a cheerful giver.
Praise God for reminding me that I need to rejoice in the fact that He has so clearly placed me in the position that He wants me in. Although I do not always understand why, this is the corner that God has assigned me to brighten.
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Hey thanks for commenting on my blog. I'm always glad to find "like-minded" blogs. I'll be back!! :0)
Hello! I found your blog through Tori's.
I love your post! What a great reminder "It is HE who chooses how I serve." I think that's one we can all benefit from learning.
I'll be back!
Nice to see you, Tori, and nice to meet you, Pam. Thank you for visiting!
and I found your blog through Pam! and the comment you left for her.
What a refreshing to find a young single woman seeking God's will and in such a sweet, humble fashion. You don't know the joy I found in reading your two post here on this blog. I pray you reach many young women both lost and saved with this great outlook and desire you have to please the LORD.
God bless you!
BTW...I taught First Grade in a Christian School!
Nice to meet you, Hope. Thank you so much for your sweet comment!
Yes, it concerns me how many women my age see a career as their only option. The more of us choose home, the more examples young girls will be able to look at as they form their own dreams for the future.
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