{"id":9549,"date":"2025-11-06T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:52:31","slug":"a-lesson-in-chores-today-god-is-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9549","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in Chores &#8211; Today God Is First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"devotional-title\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding-bottom:15px;\">A Lesson in Chores<\/h4>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><em>\u201cEach time He said, \u2018My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.\u2019 So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.\u201d -2 Corinthians 12:9<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like for you to load the dishes in this way. This is how the instruction manual says to do it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my gosh, do I seriously have to put the dishes in the dishwasher that way?\u201d\u00a0I thought. My 19 year old self was fighting what appeared to be pointless detail for something that really was not all that important, in my opinion: dishwasher loading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put them in this way, you can fit more in!\u201d said my stepmom. \u201cOk,\u201d I said, keeping a cheerful attitude. After all, they were letting me stay with them until I got back on my feet: I needed to be agreeable!<\/p>\n<p>Looking back I realize that God had a lesson for me in \u201cthe details.\u201d I am naturally not a very detailed person. But, during that time, God was putting a finger on my lack of detail, something He wanted to strengthen in me. I cannot tell you how much this has helped me in life!<\/p>\n<p>Has God allowed situations in your life to help you with your weaknesses? Let Him work through your weaknesses, so that His purposes can be fulfilled in your life.<\/p>\n<p>                    Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lesson in Chores \u201cEach time He said, \u2018My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.\u2019 So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.\u201d -2 Corinthians 12:9 \u201cI\u2019d like for you to load the dishes in this way. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1386,182,1385,181],"class_list":["post-9549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-chores","tag-god","tag-lesson","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}