Wow! I feel like I just went to the movies and watched the all-time Summer Smash Hit! The movie was cheaper and better than I have seen in a long time.
The movie title, you ask? . . .
4 Days in Genesis.
Huh?
When is the last time you took a couple of days and read through a whole book of the Bible–especially Genesis? I promise I am not trying to make you feel guilty because the Lord knows that this is the first time in a loooonnnng time that I have done anything like this.
One of my co-workers emailed everyone this week and wanted to know if we wanted to be her accountability partners in a 90 day Read-through-the-Bible challenge.
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Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. Psalm 86:4 NIV
Every woman fantasizes about the day her husband will say, “It’s okay, honey, I’ll clean the house for you today.” Well, friends, my dreams just came true.
I clean the house on Fridays. It’s my routine. But last Friday was the first day of my husband’s vacation time. As I grabbed the disinfectant spray and headed for the bathroom, he grabbed me by the waist and uttered the most charming and heart-stopping words a man could utter, “I’m going to clean for you today.
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Over the last couple of days, the Lord has been speaking to me about my freedom to fly with the purpose and destiny He has for my life. He has been teaching me that my life is much like that of a caterpillar. Before I met Christ, my life was good, but it lacked meaning. I would often move at a slow pace, not really sure what was around the corner. I was never content and I had no understanding of my true identity as a beloved creation of the most High God.
Since I have come to know the Lord, there have been many times where He has placed me in the cleft of the rock, the “cocoon”, away from the cares of this world, just me and Him.
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As a mother, I feel this way quite often. When I haven’t had much sleep and I have to get up and take care of children, when I’m on day ten of sick children, or when I’m cleaning up messes…again, I often think… I can’t do this.
I hear other women say the same thing, too… “I think God may want me to (stay at home with my children, change jobs, homeschool, etc.), but I just don’t think I can.”
We often feel like we aren’t up to the task at hand. And the truth is we aren’t able.
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“If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find it.” Matthew 16:25
One morning, when my youngest two were three and five years old, I sat down with them for a quick devotion. I usually didn’t get around to devotions with my little ones, but on this morning I had managed some quiet time myself before they got up. When they came to sit besides me, I set aside my Bible and seized the moment, never knowing that their children’s devotion would be just what I needed.
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Don’t you hate walking from one end of the house to the other and realizing you forgot why you were there?
Webster’s Dictionary defines remember this way: to bring to mind or think of again.
I also struggle with things I would like to forget, but find they pop into my mind with uninvited frequency.
Forget is defined: to be unable to think of or recall.
Our minds are miraculously complicated. I have so many things I would like to remember in detail, and just as many details that I wish I could forget. Since the clock continues to move ahead and I am not getting any younger, I’m afraid that this dilemma is not going to improve.
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**Please welcome Esther Feng of For Such a Time as This who is guest posting here today.
Praying Moms
by Esther Feng
As moms, we pray for our kids. We pray in the car, we pray while we’re changing diapers, we pray over sleeping babies.
Some days, we’ve used every parenting tool in our tool belt and there’s nothing more to do but ask for some divine intervention. We pray when the big issues of life stretch us beyond what we can bear. We’d give anything for tangible assurance that God is listening to us.
But, there are lonely times when there’s no evidence that God hears our prayers.
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