Nap Time Thoughts on Faithfulness

I got a new computer for Mother's Day. It was a loooong time coming. I have been so grateful through the year's for Garrett's computer. It was from 2011 and served a high purpose as I started doing real estate and my computer bit the dust a few year's earlier. However, it was processing slowly and so after almost four years of many, many documents - I got the green light to make that investment. Cheers to more quickly helping my clients and 10x less frustrations and choice words as I email, upload and disperse documents.

Newness brings excitement. That bubbling under the surface, crisp feeling of a new season, and peaceful anticipation of what is next. It reminds me of when the house has been completely cleaned and organized and no one is moving and the thoughts of a new clean way of life creep in (quite a change from the norm of 6 people running in and out, dumping what they just finished and pulling something else out). My new computer lends to so many new ideas.

One idea being that maybe I can gather and process my thoughts a little more quickly. Lord willing that will happen, but it won't be because I have a new computer. It isn't the NEW that will bring consistency but it will be continuing despite the lack of NEW. It will be commitment despite circumstances. It will be the push instead of the rest; the mustering up of resolve instead of the putting away until tomorrow.

It will take discipline and faithfulness. As I sit during my children's "quiet time," and reflect a little on those two traits - disciple and faithfulness - I am reminded how much I am not like God. He is such a strong figure of commitment, steadfastness, and reliability. He is the eternal reigning from age to age. He doesn't need to put away until tomorrow because He doesn't slumber or sleep. He doesn't change. His will stands.

I am reminded of the verse in II Corinthians 3. As we look towards and know Christ, we are transformed into His image, we bear His glory. As we abide in Him, His spirit faithfully does a work. My season of craziness may not change anytime soon, but my heart and the way I live out these crazy seasons can change because we hope in a faithful God who will carry out His promises. As I rely on and abide in the one who wills and carries out the work in our hearts and in our lives, His hand will sustain me and transform me. Praise God that the work He began in us WILL BE completed.

May we ever more be like Him whose steadfast love never ceases, whose promises will never be broken and whose work will be finished.