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HOMEMAKING 2: PRIORITIES
If you list your priorities, it may look something like this: God, husband, children, home, friends & family, ministry.
The problem with the list is that it can be frustrating and guilt and condemnation can set in, if we haven’t met our
expectations on the list. The Bible once again says that we are to do everything as unto the Lord, right? Well,
the Bible also gives us women guidelines. Titus 2:5 says that we are to keepers at home, ministering to our
families and creating a home of love.
Proverbs 31 is all about a Christian woman’s life. I feel that at different stages of life, things vary, as children
leave home, and things change in the home. But it still does not have to be boring but can be very fulfilling.
When we get ourselves UNDER a priority list, we can end up miserable trying to follow it. Here is how it should
be. JESUS is at the top of the list for sure. We talked about Him being the CENTER of our lives in the
“Becoming A Woman of God” section of this website. The One “In whom we live, and move and have our being”
Acts 17:28.
Then, all the other listed ltems above in paragraph 1 all are important, differing in importance and priority from day
to day depending upon the need of the person or thing needing to be done on that day. So our lives vary from
day to day and even from minute to minute, but all that we do is under the headship of JESUS living through us
as His body, in order to meet that particular need at that particular time. Then we don’t have to feel like a failure
or like we have not met our priority list, because things change daily. But no matter what, we are doing all as
unto and for the Lord!
Jesus juggles the list around. Each day is different. Perhaps it is a sick friend who needs help, maybe a sick
child needs your comfort at home, maybe your husband is feeling low and needs your encouragement and love,
maybe your house is dirty and needs to be cleaned now, maybe you’ve got a responsibility at church to fulfill and
it needs your attention that day. And maybe you just need time to do something you like to do for yourself at
times, to get a breather. You can give yourself more to one thing than another on one day, and more to a
different thing on the list the next day, if I make myself clear? Jesus balances it all out!
You can be serving Him just as much by changing diapers, preventing diaper rash, as praying. All the day long
is given to Him. He said in Proverbs 3: “Commit thy ways unto Me and I will direct thy path.”
Praise the Lord, our days don’t have to be in our hands but HIS!
Isn’t that exciting and FREEING! And He does a much better job of organizing our time than we ever could.
If you list your priorities, it may look something like this: God, husband, children, home, friends & family, ministry.
The problem with the list is that it can be frustrating and guilt and condemnation can set in, if we haven’t met our
expectations on the list. The Bible once again says that we are to do everything as unto the Lord, right? Well,
the Bible also gives us women guidelines. Titus 2:5 says that we are to keepers at home, ministering to our
families and creating a home of love.
Proverbs 31 is all about a Christian woman’s life. I feel that at different stages of life, things vary, as children
leave home, and things change in the home. But it still does not have to be boring but can be very fulfilling.
When we get ourselves UNDER a priority list, we can end up miserable trying to follow it. Here is how it should
be. JESUS is at the top of the list for sure. We talked about Him being the CENTER of our lives in the
“Becoming A Woman of God” section of this website. The One “In whom we live, and move and have our being”
Acts 17:28.
Then, all the other listed ltems above in paragraph 1 all are important, differing in importance and priority from day
to day depending upon the need of the person or thing needing to be done on that day. So our lives vary from
day to day and even from minute to minute, but all that we do is under the headship of JESUS living through us
as His body, in order to meet that particular need at that particular time. Then we don’t have to feel like a failure
or like we have not met our priority list, because things change daily. But no matter what, we are doing all as
unto and for the Lord!
Jesus juggles the list around. Each day is different. Perhaps it is a sick friend who needs help, maybe a sick
child needs your comfort at home, maybe your husband is feeling low and needs your encouragement and love,
maybe your house is dirty and needs to be cleaned now, maybe you’ve got a responsibility at church to fulfill and
it needs your attention that day. And maybe you just need time to do something you like to do for yourself at
times, to get a breather. You can give yourself more to one thing than another on one day, and more to a
different thing on the list the next day, if I make myself clear? Jesus balances it all out!
You can be serving Him just as much by changing diapers, preventing diaper rash, as praying. All the day long
is given to Him. He said in Proverbs 3: “Commit thy ways unto Me and I will direct thy path.”
Praise the Lord, our days don’t have to be in our hands but HIS!
Isn’t that exciting and FREEING! And He does a much better job of organizing our time than we ever could.