Seasons: Daily Truths to Refresh the Weary Mom预览

We are people that count the seconds. We need things fast and we need things now; Amazon prime, binge-watching a show, and drive-thrus. We don’t want to wait, we don’t want to have to be still, and we are impatient, compulsive, and irrational at times because we forget to see life the way God does. We look at our life in seconds while God looks at it in seasons. We forget that He made seasons, and He created the world to function that way. Look at the trees, look at the tide. This place you are in right now might be intense, but if we can say to ourselves, “It is only a season, and God will see me through, “ We can continue.

Continue with hope, confidence, with grace, and with endurance. The season Leah was in, was long, hard, and broken. She was unloved by her husband, despised by her sister, and felt as if she had no purpose or calling. But she continued. The Lord saw her, the Lord loved her and she stayed present in that. It didn’t mean she danced around and was happy and ignored the situation, but the posture of her heart was of praise ... even if the praise was ugly, broken, and filled with tears.

Motherhood can break you but God wants it to make you.

We cannot base our success on our children and their obedience. Now is the season of continuing. It’s the moment you hear them fighting in their room ... you whisper to God, “If I go in there right now, I will not handle this well. Please give me another chance tomorrow.” Sometimes that is the best thing we can do. Before you walk into a room and lose it, stop, breathe, and pray. The Holy Spirit is willing and waiting to give you the words. You are already filled with the fruits of the Spirit, you just need to tap into them. So today, continue. Don’t strive to do something grand, just be. You are doing a good job, Mama. And today you can’t fix it all. But tomorrow is the fruit of what you sow today, so take it slow and continue.