“Everything is meaningless…It has all been done before…And in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now”  (Ecclesiastes 1:2, 9, 11 NLT).
 
Solomon, the richest ruler in the world, must have been a homemaker.  Oh, some say he’s a he-man, showered with affection by the hundreds of his wives, waited upon hand and foot by his many servants, a scholar extraordinaire.  But who else could complete understand and give honor to the words in the verses above?

Yes, as a wife, mother, housekeeper, cook, taxi driver, laundress, farmer and work-outside-the-home executive, those are the same—the very same words I’ve said repeatedly, several times today in fact.

But he’s right—everything is meaningless, unless done to glorify God.

It has all been done before—and He’ll allow me the strength and might to do it all again, if I decide to lean on Him again.

And if I do it the right way, with His love glowing in every deed, future generations might not remember what I did—but they’ll have come in contact with the One for whom I did it.

Malinda Edgell
Illinois

PRAY TOGETHER: Pray for homemakers in your church today, asking God to help them see worth in household duties and allow these to bring honor to God.