I’m just sitting here with nothing better to do, really. I’ve got a paper I could be working on, cleaning that should be done, and plenty of laundry too. But what I really want to do? Yeah, sit on the couch and read. I’m that kind of girl- sit me down with a good book, and nothing else gets done. So that’s what I’ve been doing! Although I started to feel bad about not really writing anything on my paper, so I got up to look at what I had so far and the Bible popped open to Proverbs 31. UH-OH!
For those who are not familiar, it is a chapter in the Bible describing an ideal wife. “She is far more precious than jewels.” I’d like to think I’m pretty precious. But it goes on from there, folks: “She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household…She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong…She makes linen garments and sells them…She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness…”
Oh.
I think I just ate the whole loaf of idleness today! Now to be fair, God still loves me when I sit around all day like a slug. He won’t love me any more when I do work- that’s like saying my mother loves me more when I do her dishes, instead of making her do mine too. No, I get up and be productive because I can and because it gives me joy to work for the glory of God and it’s honoring my family as well! Plus, it always makes me feel better to have a clean room, clean clothes, and assignments all done at the end of the day…don’t you agree? Ahh, I think I have work to do…
-Stephanie
Ancient Living 