Comments on: …All is Vanity http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:58:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.1 By: Susanne http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25849 Susanne Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:16:43 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25849 I need this perspective pasted onto my forehead! LOL. It definitely changes how we do the same chores over and over when we realize that we are pleasing the Lord when we do it with the right perspective. To glorify Him in the way we think and act and minister to our families. I need this perspective pasted onto my forehead! LOL. It definitely changes how we do the same chores over and over when we realize that we are pleasing the Lord when we do it with the right perspective. To glorify Him in the way we think and act and minister to our families.

]]> By: Carol http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25856 Carol Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:36:52 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25856 This was great Angie! I feel the same way. Everything I accomplish in one day just needs to be done again the next. Thanks for the perspective. This was great Angie! I feel the same way. Everything I accomplish in one day just needs to be done again the next. Thanks for the perspective.

]]> By: Mizbooks http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25887 Mizbooks Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:02:31 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25887 LOL. I was JUST bemoaning this exact same set of circumstances (the fact that, around the house, NOTHING is ever done-done... you finish something, only to have to turn around and do it all over again!) yesterday at lunch! My husband just rolled his eyes and quipped that it's "just part of being a wife & mother". And, much as I know that, I still hate "doing something for nothing" (and that's how most of it seems, most days). But, your post reminds me that, in the long-run, it's NOT all "for nothing", really... not if I'm doing it "as unto the Lord". If I do it for His glory, to honor Him, then it's time well-spent. Thanks for the reminder. ;o) LOL. I was JUST bemoaning this exact same set of circumstances (the fact that, around the house, NOTHING is ever done-done… you finish something, only to have to turn around and do it all over again!) yesterday at lunch! My husband just rolled his eyes and quipped that it’s “just part of being a wife & mother”. And, much as I know that, I still hate “doing something for nothing” (and that’s how most of it seems, most days).
But, your post reminds me that, in the long-run, it’s NOT all “for nothing”, really… not if I’m doing it “as unto the Lord”. If I do it for His glory, to honor Him, then it’s time well-spent. Thanks for the reminder. ;o)

]]> By: WGSI http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25896 WGSI Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:06:39 +0000 http://www.5minutesformom.com/faithlifts/2008/02/26/%e2%80%a6all-is-vanity/#comment-25896 Hi Angie! I heard an excellent message a few years back about those repetitive tasks that frustrate us. He compared it to driving the speed limit--the EXACT speed limit, not 7mph over the limit. We can take anything routine and present it to God as an act of worship. We may not like it, but we can ask Him to accept it as a sacrifice of praise--that we're healhy and able to accomplish whatever a day brings. Dust isn't going to disappear, but it's all in the perspective...Thanks for the reminder! Hi Angie! I heard an excellent message a few years back about those repetitive tasks that frustrate us. He compared it to driving the speed limit–the EXACT speed limit, not 7mph over the limit. We can take anything routine and present it to God as an act of worship. We may not like it, but we can ask Him to accept it as a sacrifice of praise–that we’re healhy and able to accomplish whatever a day brings.

Dust isn’t going to disappear, but it’s all in the perspective…Thanks for the reminder!

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