A Work in Progress ...

I started typing out our usual Monday devotion and realized it was a devotion written for husbands.  I decided to skip that devotion and was going to move on to the next one. However, God gave me something else instead to share with you. Next week will be business as usual. 


As I was doing my enormous (I'm not even kidding) mountain of laundry, I thought, Will I ever catch up on this? It's a work in progress.
 
Then I got to thinking and discovered my whole life is a work in progress.
 
The state of my home? A work in progress. 
The training of my children? A work in progress.
My weight loss? A work in progress. 
My quest to be more like Jesus? A work in progress.
 
Do I have anything completely together? Nope. I can honestly say I have not perfected one area of my life.

Is this frustrating to me? Sure. I always think, Well, I'll do that once this is done or Once I'm finished with this, I'll have time for that. I've noticed however that I'm never really finished. If it's not one thing, it's another. I'm never caught up ... It just keeps going. I'm a work in progress.   

But God chose to give this work in progress a BIG idea. Was it because I was the smartest? The hardest worker? The most qualified? No way!!

Maybe it was because I listened. I was willing. I chose to obey.
 
Has God given me other ideas that I chose to ignore. I'm most certainly sure. Do I regret that? Definitely! It was my loss. God's plan was still accomplished, just not by me. If I'm not willing, He'll find someone else.

I've been feeling overwhelmed lately with the work involved with REFRESH. I've been overwhelmed with the thought that God has entrusted me with this big event and see it to completion.  In my mind, this whole thing is out of my league and much more than my meager abilities can handle. Thankfully, I don't need to depend on my abilities to accomplish this. God will compensate for my shortcomings and create the event He wants. 

I honestly don't know why He chose me, but I do know that I want to see His will done. I'm thankful for this opportunity to reach out to other moms and I will work to the best of my ability to make it happen.  

God has big plans for ALL of us. He wants to do amazing things through each and every one of us. You don't have to be perfect or capable. You don't have to know everything or have it all together. God will use a work in progress. 

Just listen for God's voice. He'll tell you what to do. He loves you and has a plan for your life. He wants to lead and guide you, let Him. 

Be willing. Be willing to do what God tells you to do. Tune out the voice of the enemy filling your head with doubts. God wouldn't ask you to do it, if He didn't plan to take you each step of the way. 

Choose to obey. Make the choice to follow through with God's plan despite your feelings of inadequacy. No one is truly adequate enough to fulfill God's plans but that doesn't matter to God.  Look at David and Goliath, the odds were clearly against David but he was victorious in the name of the Lord.    

But the LORD said to Samuel, "Don't judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."   1 Samuel 16:7

Listen.  Be willing.  Choose to obey.