Just for Moms,
Before I can spend time with my family or with my little k5 friends each day, I have to spend with Jesus or I just don't get things right!
Right now, it is imperative to keep my thinking on track. Some days I don't get our learning videos posted right on the time I want to post...because I am giving extra time to fill my heart and mind with Scripture and good music. I didn't think I would break my own schedule of how each day would go...but as each day passes...I''m learning to let God have priority first for my family's sake and then for my k5 friend's sake.
God prompted me to share the things He has been teaching me through my struggles...I am just a human being with a sinful heart who has been redeemed...who happens to be your child's teacher this year. Honestly, I resisted for two days...and He kept laying it on my heart. I argued that it was senseless with all the other noise of social media...I'm trying to stay off my devices as much as possible! I am defeated by what is happening to Christians who speak truth in love. I didn't want to be just another believer posting Scripture so that everyone knows I am doing my part. We are to be living for an audience of One. I am trying to balance that with being an encouragement for right thinking.
God has taken me back again and again to what He brought our family through over ten years ago. This morning as I got dressed, made my bed, and readied for the day, I listened to a message by Adrian Rogers. He said several things that I needed to hear as he preached from Acts 4, "It was the people’s encounter with Christ through the disciples that convinced them to believe."
Dear mommy friends, there are many people who are not going to have an encounter with Christ because of what so-called Christ followers are saying and doing right now. Our family is ministering to some people who need Jesus...but the noise around them is drowning out the true message of hope. Our family members are listening in and watching.
I was reminded this morning that we must always go back to God's Word and speak truth. The church is under attack...because the church is people...not the building that we were told we could not meet in for the last month. Satan is working over time. Fear has brought out our weaknesses. We post the verses for all to see...but we are not living it. God sees it Our family knows it.
You and I have opportunity to live what we believe in our home...in strength and without fear! How are you doing? Go to Proverbs 23:12...then look at 15, 16, and 17. Ask God to help you be like Christ...at home...for then it will spill out to the world around you. What are our children encountering in your home...Christ...or confusion? We must be leading our children to Jesus...first.
With love,
Kari...just looking at each encounter I have with people and wondering if they will see Jesus
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