Good Intentions, Good Enough?
I've been in survival mode this week until today.
I was in Superstore yesterday and walked past two pairs of young men dressed up in black dress pants and the white shirts. They had their little labels on and they weren't superstore labels. As I walked along I past two ladies talking quite loudly and I heard one say "..the jehovah's are here." Then they both bent over laughing. The thing was these ladies were not young. It was disturbing. It would have been normal for me to say something but I didn't. I was in "woe is me" mode. My thoughts were, I don't have the energy. I need to conserve so I have enough energy for my family. Good intentions but was not necessarily right. Once I start conserving energy it is about me controlling and not trusting that God will give me the energy I need to do what He wants me to do.
I think everyone has good intentions but often intentions and motives of the heart are on the opposite sides of the spectrum. For example I like keeping things at home clean and calm but the root for me is control.
In the book Captivating by John Eldridge it has a few things to say about this. "... see how much you need to have things under your control - whether it's a project or a ministry or a marriage?"
"We have never considered that by living a controling....life, we are really refusing to trust God."
Later in the same chapter it says, "Where do you go instead of to God when the ache of your heart begins to make itself known? Spending too much money, gambling, bingeing, purging, shopping, drinking, working, cleaning, exercising, too many movies, sitcoms, talk shows, even our negative emotions can become indulgences. ... we are faithlessly indulging rather than allowing our deep ache to draw us to God."
What I'm not trusting God?! It's become all about me? How did I get off track? Well the enemy satan is sneaky like that. If he can get you just off the mark at the beginnng you'll be way off when you come closer to the target.
God says, my grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness, I will never leave you nor forsake you, let not your heart be troubled. 2 Corinthians 12:19
A good friend of mine said this "I don't have to be perfect at what I do to be good at it." -Trish
Do what you need to do, no more and no less. Otherwise you are of track.
Getting back on track with you.
Alanne.
More Scripture.
1 Timothy 1:12 The Lord's Grace to Paul 12I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
I was in Superstore yesterday and walked past two pairs of young men dressed up in black dress pants and the white shirts. They had their little labels on and they weren't superstore labels. As I walked along I past two ladies talking quite loudly and I heard one say "..the jehovah's are here." Then they both bent over laughing. The thing was these ladies were not young. It was disturbing. It would have been normal for me to say something but I didn't. I was in "woe is me" mode. My thoughts were, I don't have the energy. I need to conserve so I have enough energy for my family. Good intentions but was not necessarily right. Once I start conserving energy it is about me controlling and not trusting that God will give me the energy I need to do what He wants me to do.
I think everyone has good intentions but often intentions and motives of the heart are on the opposite sides of the spectrum. For example I like keeping things at home clean and calm but the root for me is control.
In the book Captivating by John Eldridge it has a few things to say about this. "... see how much you need to have things under your control - whether it's a project or a ministry or a marriage?"
"We have never considered that by living a controling....life, we are really refusing to trust God."
Later in the same chapter it says, "Where do you go instead of to God when the ache of your heart begins to make itself known? Spending too much money, gambling, bingeing, purging, shopping, drinking, working, cleaning, exercising, too many movies, sitcoms, talk shows, even our negative emotions can become indulgences. ... we are faithlessly indulging rather than allowing our deep ache to draw us to God."
What I'm not trusting God?! It's become all about me? How did I get off track? Well the enemy satan is sneaky like that. If he can get you just off the mark at the beginnng you'll be way off when you come closer to the target.
God says, my grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness, I will never leave you nor forsake you, let not your heart be troubled. 2 Corinthians 12:19
A good friend of mine said this "I don't have to be perfect at what I do to be good at it." -Trish
Do what you need to do, no more and no less. Otherwise you are of track.
Getting back on track with you.
Alanne.
More Scripture.
1 Timothy 1:12 The Lord's Grace to Paul 12I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.
2 Corinthians 12:8-10 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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