5:30 a.m. Uuuuunnnnhhhh. I do NOT want to get out of bed.
You'd never know I went to bed at 9:30 and was asleep before 10, would you? Almost 8 full hours of sleep. (Thank You, God!) But I still didn't want to get out of bed this morning. And my lower back hurt. It would've been so easy to just skip jogging today. As I sat on the edge of the bed I wondered how this is supposed to give God glory. Wouldn't it be more glorious if I jumped up and could barely contain myself as I got dressed and put my shoes on? Wouldn't it be glorious if I was so excited I started running in place in the living room as I waited for it to get light enough to go outside? Maybe. It certainly would be exciting and fun to write about. But that's not what happened this morning and it's not what has been happening for quite a while now.
Is drudgery glorious? Is doing what I know I need to do and what is good for my body even when I don't feel like it glorious? I...think...so. As I jogged and walked, God encouraged me to blog about this. The good, fun, exciting times and the blah times when I feel like it makes no difference.
Stephen Curtis Chapman's new song that's all over the radio is called "Do Everything."
You’re picking up toys on the living room floor
for the 15th time today
Matching up socks and sweeping up lost
Cheerios that got away
You put a baby on your hip and color on your lips
and head out the door
And while I may not know you I bet I know you
Wonder sometimes does it matter at all
We’ll let me remind you it all matters just as long as you
Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace
With every move that you make
And every little thing you do
OOoh ooooh oooooh
Maybe you’re that guy with the suit and tie
Maybe your shirt says your name
You may be hooking up mergers, cooking up burgers
But at the end of the day
Little stuff big stuff in between stuff
God sees it all the same
And while I may not know you I bet I know you
Wonder sometimes does it matter at all
We’ll let me remind you it all matters just as long as you do
Everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you
To do every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace with every move that you make
And every little thing that you do
Well maybe you’re sitting in math class
Maybe on a mission in the Congo
Maybe you’re working at the office
Singing along with the radio
Maybe you’re dining at a five star
Or feeding orphans in Myanmar
Anywhere and everywhere you are
Whatever you do it all matters
So do what you do and don’t ever forget
to do
Everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace as you do
Everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace with every move that you make
And every little thing that you do
Ooh oooooh
Every little thing you do
So I'll keep getting out of bed or dragging myself out of bed if necessary and jogging, helping Brianne with math, transcribing, thrift shopping, and doing whatever I do to the glory of the One who made me. Some days it will be by sheer faith that I do it because I can't see how it can possibly be glorious. I'll just trust God that it is. :-)
