Diligence

I am struck by what I've just read over at Large Family Mothering.

Diligence - it is something I have always lacked and obviously never fully embraced because at its essence it is about embracing all, delivering all effort and standing steadfast to the end.

I was never diligent in my studies - there were bursts of energy here and there but I was not steadfast in my endeavours; I have never been diligent in my walk, or in my attendance at anything - except that purely for entertainments sake alone.

I am a failure at diligence . . . and I am struck because wasn't this just what I was speaking to Macayle about this afternoon. (You've committed to go to Brownies so you ought to go, just because you don't feel like it - you should still go, I'm sure sometimes the leaders don't feel like it - but they still go).

Diligence. That when you decide to do something - you do it - you are diligent to the task/activity/work until it is finished/over/done with.

God has called us all to be diligent to the task, to our great commission, to press on, to run the race until He comes or we cross that finishing line.

I MUST be diligent to my calling as a daughter of the King, a wife to His son, a member of His body.

PEACE is my word of the year but how can I have peace without DILIGENCE to the tasks at hand (be they my witness, my example to the children and unsaved in my life, the dishes, the laundry, my husband's needs or those of my church congregation).

Lord I pray You would lead me back through the gate of slothfulness and onto the path of diligence - a path I have avoided all too long. Amen