"You must have been a mouse in my pocket on Sunday...Hmmmm. How DID you know?!?!" So wrote my good friend (who shall remain nameless here...!), as she poured out to me HER "mama-madness" with HER daughter's messy room...confessing that just the day before reading yesterday's Daily Bible Booster, SHE had lost it--just as I do so much of the time!
You're not alone, nameless friend--we're all in this together. And how did HE know? God is right in the middle, knowing exactly when we need a little extra nudge of His grace, whether it's mothering, managing or maneuvering through other mazes of life. He's thought it out a long time ago and uses us all to help one another, then steps back and proudly watches us all get up and get going again!
He knows it all! He NEVER stops thinking of us and loving us. And in those times when we extend "no grace" to our family, our friends, or our foes, He's there...thinking thoughts of love toward us, tolerating our misbehavior just a bit, and then teaching us, "There's a better way! Why not try MY grace!" Am I glad for HIS grace when *I* misbehave--when I lose my cool, my temper, my patience, my WHATEVER! You'd better believe it....our Heavenly Father is so patient with HIS kids--"Lord, may I be half as patient with mine!"
Thank God for His Holy Spirit who nudges us to repent, to love unconditionally, to get up and try again--to say with a grin to our kids, "I really DO love you. I really AM proud of you, however you keep your room.....now go clean it!" Isn't that what HE thinks and says to US--when WE keep messy rooms in our own HEARTS?
May HE be our role model today in our dealings with family, friends--AND foes! I'm glad HE'S not finished with us yet, aren't you!! So don't YOU give up on any man, madam or mess you meet today, including yourself when you look in the mirror! Believe it--HE'S thinking about us THIS DAY and He's going to help us all...think about it--and go have a great day!
Delight in a Word from the Well--a refreshing in the Water of His Word
"But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God (Psalm 40:17 KJV)."
Draw from the Well--a prayer for renewing strength for this day
Lord, on the days when I can't even think straight for myself, help me to know that YOU are thinking of me--YOU are loving me and with me in all the no-grace situations of my not-so-perfect life. You pick me up, give me YOUR grace and then help me extend that same grace to the people in my world--my family, friends AND foes. May I never forget that YOU never forget ME! In Jesus' Name, Amen."
Note: Former title and its references removed 5/12 - See Wiki.answers.com for origin of the removed phrase.
Sorry for using this original phrase and/or not referencing its original source.
All Scriptures are taken from the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Copyright 2000 by Peggie Bohanon, Springfield, MO. All rights reserved.
