Extraordinary Wishes for the Ordinary Day

Maybe you’ve got it all together (although, I like to think that nobody really does).  Or, maybe you’re in good company with me, wishing to be a female superhero of sorts, but finding that when you wake up and look in the mirror in the morning, your cape, spandex, and superpowers are missing. (Okay, maybe the missing spandex is a good thing!)

I guess it’s a good reminder that I wasn’t made for this world and that I’m going to struggle with my flesh each and every day.  Jesus put it this way in Matthew 26:41:

“Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

In my weakness, I struggle everyday to face life with the spirit God wants me to.  My wish list for each day of my life looks something like this -

Everyday, I wish that

• I woke up with energy, to a clean house, with the coffee already made 
• I could always think of the perfect thing to have for dinner
• I had a little more of Martha Stewart and the Pioneer Woman in me
• I knew how to handle every disciplinary moment with my kids
• I looked forward to exercising
• I had mandatory nap time
• That just glaring at weeds made them shrivel up and die
• Doing dishes was considered a heroic deed
• I felt like changing diapers
• That saying “Bibbity-bobbity-boo” was all it took to transform me from my housework look into something presentable
• I enjoyed doing laundry
• My kitchen came equipped with a sous chef and a clean up crew
• I dealt with my children’s whining/crying with more patience

When I struggle with these feelings of weakness, it’s an opportunity for me to thank God for the following promises:

II Corinthians 12:9 - And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness " Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

I’m glad that I’m under God’s grace and that He’s not finished working on me yet! When I struggle to be the kind of woman God wants me to be, I have to CHOOSE to walk in the Spirit and obey God’s Word.  The result isn’t only a clean house, dinner made, clean laundry, no weeds, a happy husband, etc, which all make me feel good.  The result is joy in my heart, because I’m fulfilling the very purpose I was created for - to glorify God by living in obedience to Him!