More Blessed...

SO I have to be honest with you readers, my attitude in the home lately has been just terrible. I had a few days where my husband was sick and I was taking care of more than my normal share of things, giving of my down-time, my energy and my moments that used to be for MY personal using. I started to feel pretty great about myself. I started think that I was really quite a marter. Yeah, pride does for sure come before the fall of mankind. Then, after I fell, I've the next few days feeling sorry for myself. I mean really, "poor me because I have beautiful children that God blessed me with that I have to take care of, poor me that I have a warm, safe home to live in and clean, Poor me that I have a husband who happens to need extra help right now, but one who normally takes care of all our families financial needs, and loves me without ceasing...yeah, that's right. poor me. boo hoo.

*note sarcasm*

I've been praying and praying throughout this time that the Lord would help me, encourage me, and help me through this "difficult" time.

I'm not saying that doing a huge workload at home is easy. It's not. It is in fact very tiresome somedays, but let me tell you something that the Lord shared with me today:

"IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE." - Acts 20: 35b

And it is. Have you ever stopped to think about the times when you were the most content, the most fulfilled and the most joyful? Why, for me it's when I know I'm helping someone else. But I often forget this in my selfish times and go back to the "give me" attitude that I hate so much in myself.

That is not pleaseing to my Father. Faith with action is dead. Saying that I love my family and that they are my biggest blessings is great except for the fact that I whine and complain when I actually have to take care of them. Yep...poor me.

I'm telling myself to shape up. God is telling me to shape up and I realize my folly. So as I say "forgive me Lord..." for the hundredth, millionth, time I feel the refreshment of the Lord wash over me. It's not about me.

It's all about Him, and what He wants to do with me. He cares deeply for me, and wants His very best for me. He sees that I am tired, and longing to be refreshed, and refreshment is what He offers me. "He gives strength to the tired and weary, and His understanding no one can fathom."-Isaiah 40:29

His understanding I cannot fathom, but He longs to give my tired, weary body strength. And yours...

So as I divorce my attitude of self today, won't you join me in the prayer that claims...

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I AM the LORD, your GOD, the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL , your SAVIOR." - Isaiah 43: 2-3

Look at your circumstances through HIS EYES. Don't waste time comparing your "miserable circumstances" to someone else's rosy looking life. Remember the truths that He has set out for you who follow after Him...

"I Will turn the darkness into light before the, and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do: I will NOT FORSAKE THEM." -Isaiah 42: 16b

You are not forsaken, and neither am I.