It is easier trust in the Lord when things are going smooth and there seem to be no trials but, when the trials come and times get harder this is when we slip and the flesh cries out to be heard louder and louder.
They say this is where the rubber meets the road. What if your tires are bald and the road is all pot holes? This is when we need to more than ever examine where our faith is at! If we whine about the road and the tires then that is where we are looking, our trust is in the road and the tires and not in the Lord who is so much bigger than that and can keep us in the way we should go.
Maybe sometimes instead of driving we just need to pull over, pray and trust in the one who should be driving in the first place. It is so evident to me that I am given opportunities on a daily basis to trust in the Lord and do not always take the way I should but it is such a glorious thing to follow in his way and I am so blessed to have the church family and the sisters in Christ that I have to keep me grounded in God's direction and help me to deny the Flesh that Satan tugs at.
Love and Prayers,
Kim
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Smoothies on my computer and roast beef in the phone?
No this is not a test and I do not not really cook this way. I have just become so aware of what a perspective can do to ones day and life for that matter.
If I view my computer any different than one of my appliances I am in trouble. It is no more important than my toaster, blender or washing machine. I use it as a tool to run my house as efficiently as possible and minister by God's grace.
When I begin to view it as a toy or form of recreation I am in trouble because that is how Satan would have me to look at it.
The same is true for the phone, as much as I love to talk and yes I love to talk, I can not afford to waste my whole day on the phone and fool myself into thinking that I can multi task and be on guard against Satan and his buddies. I can not stretch my attention that far and it is not fair to the ones God has blessed me with. Prov 14:23 In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty. nkjv
I am finally a true homeschooling mom this year. I say that because I was wasting precious time on the phone last year fooling myself pridefully thinking I could multi task and gab the hours away, but I hurt my home and family by not giving them the full attention they deserved and even more I hurt the Lord because my testimony was not showing his glory to my children in any way at all. I take full responsibility for what I was and was not doing but, I now know that taking responsibility does not equal self pity.
So as ridiculous as the title sounds that is how ridiculous it is to think that my phone and computer can ever be perceived as anything more important than my blender or my oven. My walk and testimony depend upon it. Prov 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish woman pulls it down with her hands. nkjv. I would much rather build my house.
Love and Prayers,
Kim
If I view my computer any different than one of my appliances I am in trouble. It is no more important than my toaster, blender or washing machine. I use it as a tool to run my house as efficiently as possible and minister by God's grace.
When I begin to view it as a toy or form of recreation I am in trouble because that is how Satan would have me to look at it.
The same is true for the phone, as much as I love to talk and yes I love to talk, I can not afford to waste my whole day on the phone and fool myself into thinking that I can multi task and be on guard against Satan and his buddies. I can not stretch my attention that far and it is not fair to the ones God has blessed me with. Prov 14:23 In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty. nkjv
I am finally a true homeschooling mom this year. I say that because I was wasting precious time on the phone last year fooling myself pridefully thinking I could multi task and gab the hours away, but I hurt my home and family by not giving them the full attention they deserved and even more I hurt the Lord because my testimony was not showing his glory to my children in any way at all. I take full responsibility for what I was and was not doing but, I now know that taking responsibility does not equal self pity.
So as ridiculous as the title sounds that is how ridiculous it is to think that my phone and computer can ever be perceived as anything more important than my blender or my oven. My walk and testimony depend upon it. Prov 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish woman pulls it down with her hands. nkjv. I would much rather build my house.
Love and Prayers,
Kim
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