Seek, don’t sink!

I had been getting so upset at our sweet 2 year-old princess!  Jordan decided she did NOT want to wear diapers nor pull-ups anymore so I just went with it and put her in underpants.  (“Horray!  No more buying diapers,” I thought.)  First we bought Minnie Mouse & Daisy then I needed more because I couldn’t keep up with all the laundry so I got some Dora the Explorer underwear.  At first she was doing GREAT!  …And then… most days I’m cleaning pee off the floor at least once a day.  All those things that worked great when training Matthew are not working with Jordan.

God has allowed us moms to have a high pain tolerance, a strong love for our children and the gift of a kiss to make all boo-boos feel better.  However, sometimes the loss of patience and self-control show a direct relation to how much we are in the Word hearing the heart of God.  This is where I was, SO I opened a devotional book I had enjoyed reading months ago but stopped for some reason.  When I opened it and read the verse for that day, I wanted more.  I read the surrounding verses and learned.  I enjoyed the awesomeness, the coolness, the timeliness of my Savior.  If He is in me, I can be patient & self-controlled too!  After this reading the day began and I was a lot more prepared to deal with the regular things of the day that send me overboard and have me harried.  We had a real good morning until…  I tried to figure out why my 3 ½ and 2 year-olds couldn’t seem to stay in their seats at lunchtime.  I lost it.

This moment reminded me of when Peter walked on water – once he thought about his humanity rather than Who he had fixed his eyes on when he was called out of the boat.  Being a mom is a calling from our Lord to represent His love.  Momma, you and I need to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus so we don’t lose it and sink. 

“And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”

So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus.  But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!””  Matthew 14:28-30

Daddy’s Little Princess

The other day, I asked my husband Ryan to bring Jordan in for dinner and he took this picture.  Jordan is our 18 month-old daughter who is truly “Daddy’s little princess.”  When Ryan took this picture of her, it was more than just Ryan’s little princess holding her purse in one hand and the Bible in the other, to me it was about Whose princess she really is.  Jordan is God’s little princess.  She loves to say, “Hallelujah” and raise her hand (praising God).  It’s precious!!  

So moms, keep singing and praising the Lord in front of your kids. They ARE watching and listening and they are made in the image of God too who need to hear the good news of the gospel and need to see it practiced in everyday life.

¹⁸ “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ¹⁹ You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ²⁰ And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, ²¹ that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. “  Deuteronomy 11:18-21  (for some reason, God wanted part of this Scripture to be black instead of my blue...)

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Lord, in these days where we rush from thing to thing doing this and that, may we be the generation to teach this new generation about who You are and how they can practically worship You, seek and find You in their everyday.   Hallelujah!  Amen.

“Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22:6