Is all of life easy-going
and smooth-sailing for me, now? No, it is not . . . You can ask my “Shoulder-To-Cry-On”
Husband! The overwhelming “Mommy Days”
do come . . . The dishes and the laundry do pile up endlessly . . . The
homeschooling does often feel like it is falling apart . . . The children do
scream, and fight with each other, and throw food on the floor . . . My life is
normal . . . But do you know what has been DIFFERENT for me, this year? I have TIME!
What?! You have four children under the age of 5, and you have
TIME?! Yes, it has taken until this
point in my motherhood, but I finally have TIME to SPEND TIME with My Lord
every day! I am MAKING TIME, like I
haven’t during any other year of my married life . . . God had to make my
children sick with everything from eye infections to pneumonia, this past
winter - keeping me home every Sunday, for quite nearly 2 months straight. Then, in March, He allowed me to have a
convicting conversation with a missionary wife, to receive a book on prayer for
my birthday, and to be more sick with the rotavirus than I think I have ever
been with anything in my whole life.
That was the turning point . . . Psalm 143, Psalm 144, Psalm 145, and
then Psalm 119 – some days only a paragraph or two at a time – but that was the
start of it. The start of getting “back
on track” with the Lord; of renewing my relationship with Him. Over these past few months, time and time
again, I’ve thought of the words of that precious hymn: “Prone to wander, Lord,
I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love . . .”
I don’t want to go back, Ladies!
It may seem simple, but do you know what a DIFFERENCE it makes, just
having a set TIME in your daily schedule, where you can GET ALONE WITH
GOD?! Yes, even with four Little
Ones! Will Satan fight you in it? Of
course he will! But he doesn’t have to win!
It isn’t about marking chapters off on a chart, at this busy stage of my
life. It isn’t about reading the Bible through in a year, or participating in
an awesome Bible study group with other ladies.
It is about GETTING ALONE WITH GOD!
Some days, it may be just that paragraph or two! But writing down verses, writing down
prayers, meditating on God’s Word, and PRAYING SCRIPTURE . . . There is POWER
in that, My Friends! No, you aren’t
going to get to all the dishes some nights.
No, you may not mark everything off on your “to do list” for the
day. “But one thing is
needful . . .” (Luke 10:42) Just ONE
THING! I used to crave the little bit of “me time” I could carve out to watch a
show on television, or to read a book from the library, or to write a letter to
a friend . . . but nothing compares to this.
Nothing is MORE HELPFUL than this, Tearful, Weary Mama! Three-and-a-half years have gone by since my last blog post, and the
greatest thing I can share with you is that one simple truth – TAKE THE TIME TO
GET ALONE WITH GOD. He CREATED you, He
SAVED you, He GAVE you your LIFE, and He can HELP YOU through every single
thing you face! “The Lord is
my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my
song will I praise him.” (Psalm 28:7)
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Just One Thing - Dinner # 68
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