I have been very frustrated with my kids lately. I haven't been able to handle them the last few weeks and it's been very difficult for me. I think the enemy knows where I lack and that I don't feel so much as a warrior when it comes to being a wife and a mom. Earlier I was on my way to having a pity party. Feelings of worthlessness and despair came over me. I cried out to God. What's wrong with me? "This is one of your loads" He said. What do you want me to do? "Praise Me" So I did and this is what happened...
The Lord took me to the Lord's prayer. I looked it up in my daughters bible since I didn't want to go down stairs to get mine. Well, I don't know the passage by heart so after I found it I ran down stairs to look it up in the amplified thinking it was Matthew 11. It wasn't. But God is so good cuz that's exactly where He wanted me to go. A verse catches my eye and I turn the page to see if Joyce Meyer talks more about it and I see a short article she wrote entitled Lighten Your Load. I find the verse the article talks about and I begin to read from Matthew 11:28-30"Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest.[I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle(meek) and humble(lowly) in heart, and you will find rest(relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet)for your souls. For My yoke is wholesome(useful,good-not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne."
I reread it and after about the third time I saw that I am not to be harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing but I am to be comfortable, gracious, and pleasant toward my kids just as He is with me. It also says My burden is light and easy to be borne. I looked up borne in the dictionary and that led me to bear. I saw that Jesus died to bear my frustrations with everyday life. His compassion overwhelmed me and I saw how much He loved and cared that I was frustrated and wanted to take it from me.
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