A "spiritual" slap on the wrist..

I was sitting at lunch with a couple of girlfriends today and we were discussing.. husbands.. what else? Nothing bad! Just talking about the big (and little) differences between men and women.
Now let me be clear- we were not talking badly about our other halves. We were laughing, joking and symapthyzing with each other. I do NOT believe it's okay to ever talk poorly about your spouse to someone else. I respect and love my husband, to his face.. and behind his back, I just wish that from time to time he saw the same things I did when cleaning the kitchen, or didn't trim his nails or give the dog a bath half an hour after I finished cleaning the bathroom. The way that we do things, what we see as "clean" and "dirty"... and WHY OH WHY does he NEVER do things when I ask him to do them?! I'm asking him to do it because I want him to do it now.. not when it works into his schedule in six hours- or even six days. Sometimes I have to use a little self control and not yell out.. "I AM ASKING YOU TO DO IT NOW BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO DO IT NOW!"

And that's when it happened.. SLAP! Right on the wrist...

Our church has been doing a study as a group, it's twelve weeks and called "Experiencing God" and while the small group DVD can be a little.. err.. dry? The daily studies have been challenging me, day in and day out.

Yesterday's study talked about how when we give our life to Christ we give Him the right to use it at His will. Whenever He wants. The door is open. Come in and ask me to do whatever You want, whenver You want.......

But can I honestly say that I would? If I was in the middle of cleaning or on my way out the door with big plans, and he showed up and asked something of me, would I drop what I was doing and go or wait and fit Him into my schedule? I am ashamed to say that I would do the latter.

How many times have I ignored the Lord Of My Life because what He asked didn't fit into my schedule, or I just didn't want to, or I wasn't comfortable..... how STUPID does that sound?! He isn't asking something of me so that He can screw me over, hang me out to dry and laugh about it later.. He isn't asking now so I can fit it in when I want to..

Maybe sometimes He wants to yell at me.. "I AM ASKING YOU TO DO IT NOW BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO DO IT NOW!"