Overwhelmed by My Blessings: Encouragement for Moms (Part 1)Sample

Embracing our situations and circumstances is not a one-time event. Life throws us curves each day, sometimes before breakfast! How in the world do we embrace what we are given?

My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. 2 Cor. 12:9 –The Message

His grace is enough? It sounds like a religious cliche or a patronizing platitude to our weary ears. But it is truth and power for us if we’ll accept it. (Paul knew; read his account in the surrounding scriptures.) God’s grace is enough for every difficult situation we will ever go through, even if it doesn’t seem possible.

We all have a choice. We can buck and fight against our situations, or we can choose to embrace what God has given us. Here’s the key: we don’t receive His grace until we humble ourselves and admit that we can’t do it on our own, no matter what our “it” is.

Your “it” may be home educating your children. It may be dealing with a difficult child or even choosing to love your husband when he’s not so loveable. It may be your financial situation, your job, your boss, your singleness, or dealing with parents. Whatever “it” is, when we quit seeing our circumstances as obstacles to defeat or overcome, and choose to embrace them, that is when we receive His grace. It means choosing to let go, and letting Him be in control. And that is sometimes a hard choice to make.

Interestingly, when we only endure our circumstances, they may eventually overtake us, drown us, and defeat us. Embracing the difficulties can do a mighty work in our hearts. So if you find yourself fighting, striving, and bucking against the hard things in your life, let go!

Embrace to receive His grace!

Jesus, this sounds too hard. I am struggling under the burden you have given me. Things are way harder than I ever dreamed possible. I want to embrace what you have given me, but I will admit, I want things to be easier than this. Here’s what I do know. I can’t do this on my own. I need your supernatural strength and power to get through just today. I repent of trying to figure it out and do things on my own, and I ask you to show yourself in the circumstances of today. I choose to embrace my situation with a new perspective. Please show me your grace!