{"id":5249,"date":"2013-07-27T00:14:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5249"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T16:22:53","slug":"keeping-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=5249","title":{"rendered":"Keeping House"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Everything is meaningless…It has all been done before…And in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now”\u00a0 (Ecclesiastes 1:2, 9, 11 NLT).<\/em>
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\nSolomon, the richest ruler in the world, must have been a homemaker.\u00a0 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. \u00a0But who else could complete understand and give honor to the words in the verses above?<\/p>\n

Yes, as a wife, mother, housekeeper, cook, taxi driver, laundress, farmer and work-outside-the-home executive, those are the same\u2014the very same words I’ve said repeatedly, several times today in fact.<\/p>\n

But he’s right\u2014everything is meaningless, unless done to glorify God.<\/p>\n

It has all been done before\u2014and He’ll allow me the strength and might to do it all again, if I decide to lean on Him again.<\/p>\n

And if I do it the right way, with His love glowing in every deed, future generations might not remember what I did\u2014but they’ll have come in contact with the One for whom I did it.<\/p>\n

Malinda Edgell
\nIllinois<\/p>\n

PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>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.<\/p>\n

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“Everything is meaningless…It has all been done before…And in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now”\u00a0 (Ecclesiastes 1:2, 9, 11 NLT). \u00a0 Solomon, the richest ruler in the world, must have been a homemaker.\u00a0 Oh, some … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}