Pay Your Dues Now: Living for Another Life | Ep. 150
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have heard it. Some of us have said it. There's a common encouragement to moms of littles that if we "pay our dues now" or if we're "faithful in the small things" then there will be bigger things coming later as our unseen sacrifices give way to visible fruit. In this episode, Emily and Laura unpack this idea, helping us see that while it comes from a very right desire to encourage faithfulness in following Christ, it may lead us to wrong expectations. Rather than serving the Lord looking ahead to "better" things he might give us later, we can be content in serving him now, because he has already given us the best thing in his Son.
We're grateful to Harvest House for making this week's show possible. Looking for a new resources for your kiddos? Check out Even Me by Adie Camp and Courageous World Changers by Shirley Raye Redmond.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Harvest House, a publishing house that produces fresh, |
| 0:04.1 | innovative products that inspire creativity, encouraged families, enrich lives, and point people |
| 0:09.2 | toward Jesus. Harvest House offers a wide variety of books for kids, including Even Me by Addie Camp, |
| 0:15.4 | a book about short-term mission trips and sharing God's love with all people, |
| 0:19.2 | and courageous world changers by Shirley Ray Redmond, which shares 50 true stories of |
| 0:23.8 | daring women of God, including Cory Tenboom and Amy Carmichael. Find all these books and more |
| 0:28.2 | at HarvestHousePublishers.com. We're so thankful for Harvest House's support. |
| 0:37.5 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job, and the next we feel like the |
| 0:42.8 | worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel to be repeated |
| 0:48.4 | over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether you're sipping cold coffee |
| 0:54.8 | or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true encouragement and laughter here. |
| 1:00.9 | This is the Risen Motherhood podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:10.1 | Well, welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I'm Laura Whiffler, and I have my sister-in-law, |
| 1:14.9 | Emily here with me. Hello. And before we get too far into the show, we want to remind you guys that |
| 1:19.6 | we are actually a crowdfunded nonprofit, which means that we run on donations from listeners |
| 1:25.2 | just like you. And so, if you would like to join them, we encourage you to head over to |
| 1:28.8 | RisenMotherhood.com for a slash give. There you can learn more about options for giving, |
| 1:34.5 | ways to give, and we even have this really neat thing where you can donate in honor of someone else, |
| 1:40.0 | and we will send a handwritten note to that person to let them know that you made a donation |
| 1:44.7 | in your name. So, in their name. So, kind of a fun thing to do. But, okay, now let's pop into the show. |
| 1:52.1 | Yeah, Laura and I have been talking about this. We've been talking about it a lot. |
| 1:57.6 | It's talking today. A lot over the past several months. And we've been kind of working through it |
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