I woke up late this morning. As I do almost EVERY morning. Except for on the weekends. You know, those weekend mornings where you know that you can sleep in because there isn’t work calling your name, or kids that need fed and dressed for school, or some other pressing engagement that requires you to reluctantly pour your borderline lifeless body out of bed, yet your body and brain have a different idea all together and decide you need to be awake before 8 o’clock. On a Saturday. Yeah, lovely.
On top of the protested early rising, I am far from being a morning person. I need coffee and food before I can even think about functioning properly, and that is only if I have already had my seven and a half or more hours of slumber. I know, I know, I’m a complicated, complex, particular woman, and that’s just the beginning.
Anyway, on top of waking up late, as I came to work this morning, I rehashed the past few days’ events in my head. My new husband and I just bought a house. “Just” as in last week. So, things have been chaos with moving and painting and working and kids and dogs. With that, my new husband is also a business owner. Something we are both learning as we go, though he has 4 years more experience with that then I do. It is a set of issues and learning in itself. As I reviewed my week/weekend, I was convicted. None of the events reflected anything near honoring God. And I am ashamed to say that. It seems that with the hustle and bustle of the past two months, between wedding, honeymoon, work, house, and adapting to multiple changes, I have lost touch with God. And that I am even more ashamed to say. I should be more dependent and more in touch and more in love with God as I begin this new journey in life. But…I haven’t been.
Life has been chaos. And it has definitely taken it’s toll on me, my nerves, and my faith. And I’m sure my family has felt it. I recently read an article on being too busy and what the bible says about busyness and chaos. The article quoted a “godly man”. It said “…if the devil can’t hinder our relationship with God by making us immoral, he will simply make us busy.” How profoundly true!! And that busyness takes it’s toll on our faith, our God-given relationships, and our health. All of which we should nurture. Proverbs 14:30 (AMP) says “A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body…”. If we are too busy for God, then we should be too busy for ANYTHING else. He is supposed to sustain us always. Yet our faith and our God-given relationships are the first things to deteriorate. But, being the imperfect beings that we are, we put our earthly, more pressing needs and wants and demands before that of our Maker, and the relationships and talents he has given us. And we are ALL guilty parties.
The article I read also said .”The Bible indicates that we will eventually answer to God for what kept us busy while we lived on this earth. Scripture says: ‘For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].’ (2 Corinthians 5:10 AMP) We must ask ourselves, ‘What am I giving my attention to? What keeps me busy?’ And we need to ask the Lord, ‘What do You want me to change? What would You have me leave alone?’ Jesus told His disciples, ‘We must work the works of Him Who sent Me and be busy with His business while it is daylight.” (John 9:4 AMP) Notice that the Savior said that WE must be busy with God’s business. Every child of God has an earthly assignment and purpose, and it’s up to us to discover it and perform it as we walk in close fellowship with Him on a daily basis. David wrote: “My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to You; human existence is but a breath. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend. And so, Lord, where do I put my hope? My only hope is in You.” (Psalm 39:5-7 NLT) David recognized that his life on earth would be woefully brief, and that apart from God it would be meaningless.” (www.jesusfreakhideout.com/devotionals/youretoobusy.asp)
Its time I take my own advice. I need to feed myself with the word more. It applies to every aspect of this life. It will make me a better mother, wife, daughter, friend, employee, and child of God. It will allow me to better serve God through my daily life. To have patience and perseverance. To spend more quality time with my family. To be more supportive. More virtuous. More ambitious. More loving. More Christ In Me. That is what we all need.
So, as you start your day, and every day afterward, Feed Yourself, Girl! in and through every word of the Maker. It has all of the answers.
Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test an approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Its time I take my own advice. I need to feed myself with the word more. It applies to every aspect of this life. It will make me a better mother, wife, daughter, friend, employee, and child of God. It will allow me to better serve God through my daily life. To have patience and perseverance. To spend more quality time with my family. To be more supportive. More virtuous. More ambitious. More loving. More Christ In Me. That is what we all need.
So, as you start your day, and every day afterward, Feed Yourself, Girl! in and through every word of the Maker. It has all of the answers.
Romans 12:2 says, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test an approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
feed yourself, girl 