Learnable Moments For Moms: Devotions To Discover God In The Everydayনমুনা

My toddler loves to play with playdough. She has a set where she can make playdough hair grow on a person, then she can style it or cut it. We have two rules with the playdough- keep it off of the carpet, and don’t eat it. She really wants to eat it. It doesn’t help that most playdough sets are food related, which is why we ended up with the hair one. 

Every now and then, the urge to eat the playdough becomes too great. She isn’t very sneaky, though. She will get a piece and say, “I going to check on something, Mommy. Stay here. Not come too.” She will then run from the room and usually go hide in my closet, where I will find her sitting on the floor between the hanging clothes and stuffing playdough in her mouth. Thankfully playdough is non-toxic, although it is difficult to get out of her teeth. I am always sad when playdough time takes this turn because it means we have to put the playdough away, and the fun is over.

READ

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

Psalm 139:7-12

APPLY

While it is wonderful to know that God never leaves us, we sometimes have the urge to tell God to stay away for a little while, especially when we are doing something that we know is against the boundaries He has set in His Word. Even if we think we have hidden something from Him in a dark secret corner of our lives, He knows it. We don’t get to pick and choose when to have God around. If God is comfort in our loneliness, He is also conviction in our sinfulness. If He is peace when things are out of our control, He is also the perfection that reveals how we come up short. While it may seem like an invasion of privacy, God’s true motivation is to bring us close to Him by constantly encouraging us to become more like Christ. Let’s allow His light to shine on the dark places of our lives so that they can be light too!

PRAY

Father, thank you for your constant presence, that you never leave or forsake me. Please help me to see the areas where I need to become more like Christ and give me the courage to bring them to light so that I can experience the freedom that comes from obedience.

REFLECT

What is one way that I can become more like Christ?