What I Want My Daughters To Know, Part 2

The Glory of Plodding 

I want you to know that being faithful is more important than being radical. You wrestle and struggle to know your calling but I’ll tell you right now it’s actually stunningly simple and awfully enormous. You’re called to obey and walk with the God of the universe. You are created to know God. Everyone is so bent on being different and standing out and changing the world when Jesus was satisfied to spend 30 years quietly and faithfully working with dirty hands. I do want you to impact the world for Christ, and if that’s your great, all-consuming desire, I will be so thankful. I just want to remind you that in order to change the world, you need to learn the glory of un-applauded, unnoticed, unexciting, unemotional obedience, sacrifice, and faithfulness. This is the nucleus of life with Christ, learning to abide daily in his presence. You want an adrenaline rush and tears and adventure and thrill and revival and the end of poverty and the nations to come to Jesus—I know. You want to quit school and move to Africa so you can actually do something. It is so much harder to patiently walk with Jesus in the everyday mundane where you have been placed than it is to pine after “radical” obedience. Mothers who wake before dawn to spend time with their saviors are radical. Dads who work in a factory and love their coworkers well and provide for their families and train their children to know God and serve the body with consistency are radical. I want you to learn the glory of plodding.