This week has not been productive. Too many sickies in the house. I am praying for a better up coming week.
This week I've been thinking about how satan can get to us psychologically. Recently, God has done some amazing things with and around me. But the enemy has a way of putting blinders on us. The enemy wants us to see our Father's magnificence as insignificant.
I am the queen of internal pitty parties and satan knows that. The enemy knows how to distract me. The enemy knows exactly what buttons to push to get me to have my little pitty parties. That is how he blinds me. What's the old saying? "You can't see the field for the trees." Or something like that. Well, that's exactly the state of mind satan needs me to be in, in order to keep me from praising my God.
I've even been praying, "God, give some encouragement." But, my encouragement is right in front of me, all the time. So yesterday, while praying, my little-big voice said, "Snap out of it my dear." And, I was reminded of all the things I have to praise Him for. And how insignificant my distractions are compared to all the magnificence he has done for me. I am right where He wants me in my places of service, my home life is more wonderful than I ever thought it could be, my whole family is healthy, (except little things that an antibiotic can't take care of) I'm right where he wants me to be for work, and, by the way, I have a house and a car, and many many comforts.
I'm going to start praying this: From now on when the jerk of the earth tries to distract me I'm going to run down my loooong list of blessings and snap out of it. I will pray the same prayer for all of you.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
—Matthew 22:37-40
This week I've been thinking about how satan can get to us psychologically. Recently, God has done some amazing things with and around me. But the enemy has a way of putting blinders on us. The enemy wants us to see our Father's magnificence as insignificant.
I am the queen of internal pitty parties and satan knows that. The enemy knows how to distract me. The enemy knows exactly what buttons to push to get me to have my little pitty parties. That is how he blinds me. What's the old saying? "You can't see the field for the trees." Or something like that. Well, that's exactly the state of mind satan needs me to be in, in order to keep me from praising my God.
I've even been praying, "God, give some encouragement." But, my encouragement is right in front of me, all the time. So yesterday, while praying, my little-big voice said, "Snap out of it my dear." And, I was reminded of all the things I have to praise Him for. And how insignificant my distractions are compared to all the magnificence he has done for me. I am right where He wants me in my places of service, my home life is more wonderful than I ever thought it could be, my whole family is healthy, (except little things that an antibiotic can't take care of) I'm right where he wants me to be for work, and, by the way, I have a house and a car, and many many comforts.
I'm going to start praying this: From now on when the jerk of the earth tries to distract me I'm going to run down my loooong list of blessings and snap out of it. I will pray the same prayer for all of you.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
—Matthew 22:37-40
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