Dear Ladies,
The house is full of commotion. I am sick today. I have a cold that is determined to grow until it has me in a full retreat back to bed. My husband is preparing for his work load for the week ahead. My son and his friends are having a band rehearsal upstairs. My girls are popping in and out of the house. Barking dogs every time the front door opens and closes, laundry buzzer, out of dishwasher detergent, dishes piling up, need more boxes of Kleenex, just feel yukky ...Praise the Lord.
What? Praise the Lord. Why?
Because I have a husband, a family, children, laundry to fold, dishes to do. How long will my good God give me them? I don't know. I just need to enjoy every minute of it while I have it.
I have lived with a bad attitude!!!! It isn't feminine or beautiful. I still can have a bad attitude but scripture has a way of knocking that out of someone. When we look back at the effects of our attitudes on the ones we love, it looks ugly. I see it as wasted time in gospel living. I have tarnished it with my living out my will instead of my all knowing God's will. I don't want to live with the regrets of having a bad attitude with a child or my husband. The attitude itself is painful enough knowing well what my God does with it.
Jesus is my advocate who shows His hands to His father and says 'I died for her, she is mine. I know she is not perfect but she has been goven My grace and mercy.'
This heavenly thought is enough to humble me and break my ties with sin. Oh, I may fall into a sin again. There are sinful attitudes that laid dormant in all our hearts. Given the right circumstances they will rise up and desire to take over. I have failed to follow scriptural commands, to watch over my heart with all diligence, because from it flow the streams of life. Or how about failing to capturing my thoughts and taking them captive to Christ. These scriptural principles are for our good and God's glory.
If I am stubborn, then my faithful God will chasten and show me that I may not continue on my path. Allowing the Holy Spirit to bring me out of wrong thinking into Christlike thinking is so much pleasant than sin or the pleasure that sin broadcasts.
Having said that, I want to spend my time running the race, faithful to turn as quickly as possible toward God, and seeking to give God glory for the days I have left.
Praise the Lord! He chose not to leave me as I was...dead in my sins, selfish, living for myself. What an adventure we have in living for Christ! It is far from dull.
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