Gospel-Centered Mom: A 5-Day Devotional By Brooke McGlothlinSample

Living Out God’s Dream

You might be thinking, I’m just an ordinary mom trying to get through the day without either my child or me having a meltdown. Some days I don’t even leave the house. Does God really care about the way I live my story?

First of all, there’s no such thing as an ordinary mom. You have a unique set of circumstances and unique gifting. Second, God definitely cares how you live your story within those circumstances and that gifting.

Every single person reading this lives a life of influence in some way. Someone is watching you, whether you know it or not, and that person’s life matters for all eternity. It’s no coincidence that you have the neighbors you do. It’s no coincidence you work with the people you do. God gives you influence everywhere you go, even and especially in your own home. Maybe the reason you’re enduring your hard place, whatever it may be, is so you can be living proof of His unfailing love to someone else

In choosing to live the Gospel, to accept the painful truth that you are not enough for your children, you are set free from the burden of your expectations—and you surrender to the story that’s bigger than your own goals for your family.

Who knows what God has in store for our sons and daughters? Will we allow God to use our lives as a part of His bigger story? Will we play our parts, even if they aren’t the ones we thought we would play? Will we say yes to God no matter what He asks us to go through? Or asks our children to go through?

Will you give up your right to live the story you dream of and instead live the one God has given you? People all over the world are giving up their lives in order to spread the story of Jesus to those who don’t know it. Will you join them and live the True Gospel story, right where you are?

What does it mean to be “set free from the burden of your expectations”? How might living in that freedom positively influence someone you interact with regularly—whether a neighbor, another mom, or a family member?

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