I like to share things that I'm learning or that have spoken to me. Usually it's someone else's words and wisdom that I just copy down. It's my hope that whatever has lifted my heart might also lift yours.
Recently I've been struggling with whether or not I have what it takes to be a good mom. Don't all mom's feel that way at some point? I know I'm not alone here! But when I started getting down on myself, God really convicted and reassured me through this particular devotion.
Here was the mom's devotional attached to 1 Samuel 1:21-28:
Have you ever prayed Hannah's words as your own? I have. Several times. Eagerly I've asked for God to take charge of my children. Out of fear that I might "ruin" them, I hand them over to him.
But as I give my children to God, I often hear him ask, "Do you really trust me with your children? Do you trust me to get them to school safely?"
"Yes!" I respond.
"Do you believe that I can guide them through an illness?"
"Of course!"
"How about deciding if they will marry - and who?"
"Better you than I!" I say.
"Then do you trust me to select the very best mother for your children and for who I want them to become?"
We can be the mothers our children need because God divinely chose us for the job. Don't doubt it. He knows what he is doing. And aren't we glad!
3 months ago
I've heard somewhere that God has designed me to be exactly the mother that my children need. Even through all my faults and errors in child raising, God has made me to be the 'perfect' mother for them; exactly who they need me to be. It is quite humbling.
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