If we are honest, most days we are just trying to hold things together.
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Everywhere we look, something is threatening to come apart at the seams.
Whether it’s family, house, yard, health, or
work: it all seems to be held together by a very thin thread.
God has gifted women with an extraordinary
ability to not only juggle multiple items with incredible skill, but to keep
them from falling apart. We wield a God
given Super Glue that we innately know how and where to apply.
We are doers and fixers…and we are good at it!
We see every broken place, crack, splinter and weak spot and
we are ON IT! Fixing, applying, adding,
piecing or simply fretting about how to fix it.
I don’t know about you…but I get so exhausted!!!
Sometimes, a lot of times, the problems are too complex for
us to handle. There are no books,
seminars, conferences, techniques, counselors or even medications that we can
turn to for help.
The issues that we deal with are huge. God has asked each and every one of us to
hold the broken close to our hearts. In
doing so, their pain becomes very personal.
We rub up against it, touch it, feel it and help that person carry it. Pain and brokenness are messy…so very messy! When we get close, it soils us.
But God asked us to embrace the broken
because that is exactly what He did for and to us.
Is it easy, NO! Is it fun, not in the slightest! Does He ask us to like it, not at all!
He never asked us to enjoy our walk in this
world.
He just asked us to be His light
and love to the person we are walking with, knowing that the world has done a
number on them too!
But when we can’t fix it: when there isn’t anywhere to turn and we run
out of answers, then we get discouraged.
Hopelessness, depression and despair start to swirl around
like smoke and we choke on it. Although
we can work like crazy to fix things on a good day, the minute we can’t find a
solution, we bow our heads and give up. At
least, I do! And at that moment, we are
made useless. Our light goes out and we
are disarmed.
Satan uses some pretty heavy weaponry on us because we are
fighting ‘front line’ stuff. We are
walking beside Gods people, and this broken world has placed them within Satans
grasp. God has asked you to help get
them back! Do you think Satan is going
to stand back and watch that happen?!!! I DON’T THINK SO!
He will hit you with the big guns…problems that are too big
for you to handle and when you can’t fix them, he’ll hit you with doubt, despair,
discouragement and depression! You’ll get mad at yourself, your family, your church
and community. Everyone will have failed
you, in your mind!
But look at what he says in Acts 17:26-27---
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’”
Do you hear what Paul is saying here? Remember who God is! He has allotted when you were to be born,
where you were to be born and what the boundary of you life would be, whether
physically or spiritually.
No matter where
you are, you can at least FEEL your way toward Him and FIND Him!
He is not so far from you…because ‘IN HIM WE
LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING’…
Fixing things in our life requires action, using our hands. It’s what we do, we are good at it. But when the dark smoke starts to swirl
around you, you’re choking and you can’t see;
reach out and ‘feel your way
toward him and find him’.
He didn’t
leave you in some unknown place.
He put
you there, and ‘is actually not far from’ you!
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| Seattle skyline shrouded in smoke from wildfires |
In His love,
Cath
