This week was rough for me. It was long, stressful, and exhausting. I was wrestling with trying to be everything that I "needed" to be, feeling woefully inadequate, and I wound up sitting on my floor this evening trying to organize my paperwork stack... because I needed some victory, even if it was small. As I sat in a heap of papers, my sister called. My sister who is overwhelmed with her own chaos and small business and new baby son. And she listened to me pour out my heart. Even when my passion is to serve and follow God, life gets messy and confusing sometimes, so I laid out all my reasonings and fears to her, and she set me back with one question:
"If you're doing what God is calling you to do, even if it hurts and it's scary, how can it not turn out right and good?"
Bam. I had no answer. She was totally right. I needed the perspective that sometimes life isn't EASY, but the hard times are battles that God is allowing into my life. I can lace up my boots and do battle with a whole heart knowing that the outcome will be Good. When my eyes can't see the good, God does. And I trust Him.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. John 14:27
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