A Trying Month

This has been a trying month.

Do you ever have those?

Where you get to the end of the month and say

“How did we make it through that?”

God’s grace and faithfulness has always been the answer

I honestly do not know how unbeliever gets through days, weeks, months or years without His redemptive love and grace.

I struggle so often at getting things ‘right’ or ‘perfect’.

Which is unattainable.

Christ is the only perfect things, man and God without spot or blemish.

I am to follow after Him.

How? With my spots and blemishes?

THANKFULLY

because of His GREAT love for you, and me He sacrificed His life for us, so that we can be made perfect and complete.

Which means my long list of things that I try to make perfect.

Myself

My marriage

My boys

Our home

My friendships

I need to let go and give it to the Lord.

Only He can make me into the woman He created

Only He can make my marriage a picture of Christ loving the church

Only He can change the heart and attitude of my boys

Only He can make my home a haven of rest and peace

Only He can direct the relationships in my life.

If I try to take over and do it

CHAOS!

Thankfully, the Lord is patient with me. Because even though I know what it is I aught to be doing I am not always doing it.

Which is sin

To him who knows what is right and does not do it, to him it is sin

So Lord I give it to you, my Martha ways {here and here}, {my sad heart}, {discontentment}

These trials are producing something lovely in me, slowly but surely