Hello there! My name is Hazel, wife of Andrew, mother to his children, and I blog at A Legg Up, a space where I share snippets of our everyday. In one of my blog posts I talked about my struggles of accepting myself as a mother. If you haven't read it yet go here, as I will be elaborating on this topic.
Back in what I call my workaholic days, before I got married, I had a very clear picture of what I was going to do with my life. What my career would be, what my lifestyle would be like, and definitely what my priorities are towards children. Then, over the span of a couple of years, my perspective changed, I was beginning to see what God had in store for me. Yet, all the while, I was holding onto what I wanted. I call this my Jonah phase. I knew what God wanted me to do, but I was running the other way. Those three days and three nights inside a whale for Jonah? It was more like three years for me. (Not spent inside a whale, fortunately, but now that I think of it, maybe it would have only taken 3 seconds inside a whale for me to snap out of it.)
Don't copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is. Romans 12:2
See here's the thing, if you want to know what God's will is for you, just ask him! He's gonna tell you. But it's one thing to know what God's vision is for you, and it's a whole other thing to actually accept it, and to do it! You know that Jonah was still not convinced after he did what God asked of him. You think that whale experience would have been enough! But no. Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. God transformed Jonah's thinking. And God transformed my thinking. Actually, it should be, I finally LET God transform my thinking. God's there to help, but you have to be willing to let him.
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