Day three of our blog and the excitement is still so fresh. I can’t help but wonder if girls like Lysa and Beth felt this way as they published their first blogs. Not that I am anywhere close to being in their league, but it does make me wonder! I can’t wait for all of you to start posting too!
As I’ve told you before, this book has had such an effect on me. Chapter three has jumped up and down on my toes! I’m going to need steel-toed shoes by the end of this book!
Lysa opens the chapter with her account of the “great brownie failure of 2008.” Ever been there? I know I have! So many times I have tried to accomplish something great for my kids and totallt failed! Each time I find myself letting Satan use that failure to make me feel inadequacy. “Satan delights in our feelings of inadequacy,” Lysa states. Girls, I don’t want any part of my life to be a delight to Satan! How about you? Here's a verse from Psalm 119:71 that wowed me this morning, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes." So there ya go. I have seen that my affliction has been good because now I can learn that God does not want me to feel this way any longer!
So I’m going to take Lysa's advice and learn to separate my shortcomings from my identity. Praise God! I am a child of the King! Redeemed and loved. Not a total failure! "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made..." Psalm 139:14
I definitely can relate to the great brownie fiasco. It seems that it only takes a small thing like that for the enemy and sometimes even ourselves to get us off our path with the Lord. One of the blessings though is having some great Sisters in Christ to be motivators to help us get away from that pitfall. It doesn't mean we won't fall again into the same kind of trap but it does mean that we can learn more about ourselves and as we grow stronger in our relationship with the Lord, it will happen less and less... I hope and pray :)
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