dependence by the load
"When you start to feel stressed, let those feelings alert you to your need for Me. Thus, your needs become doorways to deep dependance on Me and increasing intimacy between us. Although self-sufficiency is acclaimed in the world, reliance on Me produces abundant living in My kingdom. Thank me for difficulties in your life, since they provide protection from the idolatry of self-reliance." Jesus Calling; May 10
These are the words that started my day. A day that I was bound a determined to not be productive. I don't know... I have tons to do, but am just fed up with so many of these things that I was wanting to pitch a fit and forget about life for the day. Mind you we would be running around naked if I don't get this laundry done though. LOL
I woke up grumpy. You all know that feeling, right? I just didn't wanna be thankful. Not today. I was gonna get the kids off to school and crawl back into bed and pretend that today didn't exist. Then God stepped in... through Tia's voice reading the words from the devotional I wrote to you above.
Thankful? No, I was definitely not being thankful.
Running away from difficulties... that was my plan.
Letting my problems alert me... I was letting mine suffocate me.
God always has a way of snapping me outta my slump. One way or another He does.
So, I have started the laundry worshiping all the way through it... and praising God for my moodiness as a wildly obvious way to draw me into His presence even more. And guess what? My "problems" are still the same... but my dependence level is growing deeper by the load. :o)
"We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God, who raises the dead." 2 Corinthians 1:8-9
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