This morning in church, the band played a song by Hillsong called With Everything. The lyrics say "with everything, with everything we will shout for Your Glory. with everything we will shout forth Your praise."
As I stood there singing along, I was thinking about that. One of the reasons that song is so powerful is because of it's motivating tune and lyrics. You feel while singing it with a room full of believers that you are truly part of a movement. As humans, we have this urge to be a part of something huge. We want to do something important and big. As I pondered the lyrics and this season of my life, I thought about what that looks like as a mother. I realized that my shouts for His Glory come in silent self control.
When my toddler throws something across the room and hits me, and I punish her with complete calm thinking only of guiding her and not revenge, it's the same as loud yells for the Glory of God. Shouting forth His praise looks more like putting shoes on the right feet and wiping runny noses.
I'm a very talkative person, so this may be the biggest struggle of this season of my life. I want so badly to be in the middle of life, up on current events, doing good for people all around me, and, honestly, being that person that people connect with being involved in a movement. My prayer is to remember after today and this week that my movement is the movement towards nap time, play time, bedtime. And the movement is just as big, just as huge, and just as glorifying. At times, it's easy for moms to feel like their job isn't as important in the long run as things other people are doing, but it is. Lisa Bevere talks about arrows and how arrows are designed to reach a battle the person shooting them may never actually enter. "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of the warrior, so are the children of one's youth." Psalm 127:3-4 Our weapon at the moment is to raise up Godly disciples, aiming them in the direction where they're most needed. I feel more important already, don't you?
