Do you sometimes feel like your job is not important? Especially in mothering, most of our “work” is hidden from others. No one sees the things we do day after day to serve our families. And then when meeting someone and they say “What do you do for work?”, we often feel ashamed to say, “I’m just a mom.”

It’s so easy to falsely think that it’s the pastors and missionaries who are doing the actual “important” work for the Kingdom of God. And its the nurses, teachers, and business people who are doing the important work for the society.

Because, let’s face it…. All I am doing day after day is tending the house and children, making meals, changing diapers, cleaning up messes, and washing clothes.  

But Momma! As long as we are working for the Lord Jesus and following Him in obedience, then whatever we are doing through our day, we can know that our work is important to Him.

Here’s a great quote from Martin Luther that sums it up:

“What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow.”

And this one from Charles Spurgeon:

“You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, and training them up in God’s fear, and minding the house, and making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.”

So tomorrow when you wake up, have a new perspective. You are on assignment from the Lord. You are working for Him. And your work, whatever it is, is just as important to Him as anything else.

Colossians 3:23-24 : And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.