If you're a mom....have you ever "taken a bath" with your child's baby wipes?! Is it only me? There are some days where, as a working mom, that's as good as it's going to get, lol. :-) What do you do to save time?
CONGRATS to MercyMe! Their new CD, The Generous Mr. Lovewell, just debuted at #3 on the album chart! The overall album chart, so they are #3 out of everything in the whole country. Whoo!!!!
I am challenged every time I read Oswald Chambers. I wanted to share today's entry from My Utmost For His Highest with you, as it really spoke to me. I have a tendency to be cynical and to complain and to feel sorry for myself when things go wrong (or even when they are going right--sometimes I feel like this is my default setting!), and this was the wake up call that I needed today. I pray that it will speak to you, and help start your weekend off on a happy note, even if you are going through some disagreeable things. When you go through those dark places...know that they can change you and transform you, if you will let them.
"That life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal
flesh." 2 Corinthians 4:10
We have to form habits to express what God's grace has done in us. It
is not a question of being saved from hell, but of being saved in order
to manifest the life of the Son of God in our mortal flesh, and it is
the disagreeable things which make us exhibit whether or not we are
manifesting His life. Do I manifest the essential sweetness of the Son
of God, or the essential irritation of "myself" apart from Him? The only
thing that will enable me to enjoy the disagreeable is the keen
enthusiasm of letting the life of the Son of God manifest itself in me.
No matter how disagreeable a thing may be, say - "Lord, I am delighted
to obey Thee in this matter," and instantly the Son of God will press to
the front, and there will be manifested in my human life that which
glorifies Jesus.
There must be no debate. The moment you obey the light, the Son
of God presses through you in that particular; but if you debate you
grieve the Spirit of God. You must keep yourself fit to let the life of
the Son of God be manifested, and you cannot keep yourself fit if you
give way to self-pity. Our circumstances are the means of manifesting
how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure the Son of God is. The
thing that ought to make the heart beat is a new way of manifesting the
Son of God. It is one thing to choose the disagreeable, and another
thing to go into the disagreeable by God's engineering. If God puts you
there, He is amply sufficient.
Keep your soul fit to manifest the life of the Son of God. Never
live on memories; let the word of God be always living and active in
you.
