"One thing is necessary...and it will not be taken away from her.” Luke 10:42
Everybody always talks about how hard it is to get started. Few talk about how hard it is to start over. Starting over takes double the mental and emotional energy. Because you know where you used to be. You’ve been here before. You know how far you’ve fallen. You know what hitting reset means. You know the work it’s going to take just to claw halfway back to where you used to be.
Father, It was your three-personed wisdom that set the earth’s foundations and established the heavens. You are infinitely loving, eternally…
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Maybe you’ve had something precious stolen from you. Something you built over years suddenly crashed to the ground: Your kids, your health, your reputation, your finances, your business. It seems the eagle has swooped in to devour what was yours.
But this is not the whole story for the children of God. When the entire emotional, financial, and physical landscape of our lives seems to be “laid waste,” by an unseen enemy, there is good news: We have the Greater Gideon.
How many times have I pushed and struggled against a ceiling, when the open door was on the ground? The kingdom of God is not like the world. In his kingdom the way up is down. The was to save your life is to lose it.
We don’t have to look far to see famine in our land today. We are a spiritually impoverished nation. We look to worldly leaders and influencers, but like the judges of Ruth, they are powerless to nourish us. We turn inward to try to help ourselves, save ourselves, love ourselves but find we are not the source of anything. There is only one who is able to feed us in famine, and not just feed us but flourish us.
Potty training for me is like childbirth. The first few accidents aren’t a big deal. A little deep breathing, and encouragement from my husband calms me down. Then the hours pass, the dirty laundry grows. The accidents get closer together and more painful.
