If I didn’t make the bed today or pick up dirty clothes up off the floor, my day still mattered.

If I didn’t clean house, cook a healthy meal, or wash a load of clothes, my day was not a waste.

When I think I am not good enough or I did not live up to perceived expectations, I need to see those feelings as Satan’s deception. Those days when I think I am doing the small and insignificant, that doesn’t mean God is not fulfilling His plan for my day. Maybe He wanted me to take it easy. Maybe I needed to be ‘backstage’ or on the sidelines.

God doesn’t intend for us to bully or belittle ourselves when things don’t go our way or the unexpected happens. Every day will not go as planned and it is on those days we need not be anxious convinced God is breathing down our necks. He is not. He is gracious, He is righteous, and He is merciful. Our sense of purpose should not be tied up in daily tasks but in the daily surrendering of our days, giving us freedom from guilt and the confidence of grace.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. Psalm 116:5