No seemingly unproductive day will erase the glory of the life you are already producing.
You are productive in a million invisible ways that no one will ever see except your heavenly Father. You produce good things everyday. You may not be reproductive if you have suffered with infertility, but the fruit you bear in the kingdom of God has eternal rewards in heaven.
The good works God assigned for you to do in this life are producing a value far beyond what can be measured in this life. You are producing elements of faith that the Spirit has produced in you through the trials and storms, in the waiting, the suffering and loss. These produce a weight of glory far beyond what you can imagine.
When you take your pain and give it over to Jesus, he transforms your story to produce your purpose.
This is what it means to be restored by grace.
When you give away the love Christ first showed you by his grace you become re-productive. You reproduce the purposes of the Holy Spirit in your life as he fills you with all fullness in Christ Jesus. He makes you full of his glory so that you become joyfully expectant with the fruit of new purpose.
2 Corinthians 4:17-19 gives us these promises…
- Our present troubles are small compared to heaven, and they won’t last very long.
- They produce a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!
- We don’t look at the troubles we can see now. Instead, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. The things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
What lasting things do you want to see in “forever”? What are you producing now that will bear fruit forever?
For we live by believing, not by seeing. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 NLT
Today I wanted to assure myself of the little things I was able to do. Some of them will quickly be undone and need to be done again tomorrow; these are the temporary things. A few of them hold greater weight as they are even now producing eternal value that never fades.
I am choosing to fix my eyes on the unseen glory.
Here is my list of the things in which I felt productive:
- I read my Bible.
- I ate breakfast and even served some to my husband before work.
- I packed my daughter’s lunch and remembered to put it in her back pack.
- I prayed with my child on the way to school
- I got her to school on time!
- I put in a load of laundry.
- I did the dishes.
- I paid two bills.
- I arranged a coffee date with a friend.
- I sowed seeds of peace in my family.
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This article originally appeared at JanetteMcLaughlin.com.
