For His Yoke is easy, goodbye plague

"For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light.” ‭Matthew 11:30

I want to share a praise of how my Beloved continues to work in my life and how every small or big detail is used to teach me more and more what it means to put my projects and plans aside and put my affairs in his hands.

A few months ago, in my house, I was suffering because little by little my home was filled with cockroaches, this apartment has suffered from that threat since I lived in it, because a store operates on the ground floor of this construction, who has had businesses related to food.

From the first times I noticed the problem, I was able to stop it with different products that helped me shield the house from the pest, however, a few months ago those products stopped having an effect, and little by little I found myself filled with this plague of cockroaches.

At first I tried to control it with all kinds of products, I think I tried all the over-the-counter products from the supermarket to the chemical products from specialized stores and nothing... On the contrary, it seemed that I was increasingly filled with that plague.

In context, if this in itself already represented a rather unpleasant situation, the precedent that I was one of those women who neglected their home also made me feel very bad, because having that plague in the house, I received comments that hurt me from people.

And it was exasperating for me to see that I could not keep the cupboard clean without pests, it was not due to lack of cleanliness or cleanliness, in my desire to eliminate them, as I told you, I tried all kinds of products, I cleaned every day, I tried not to have garbage in the house and I did a deep clean every week, but still nothing worked

This situation was a regular part of my prayers, but in recent months it was more insistently, because when visitors arrived, the impression they got was that I had a dirty house and I was not careful at home, how that broke me! , I must confess that she also worked by trampling on any fibers of pride that I might have left because every time my ex-mother-in-law visited me, she helped me clean, brought me products, and I was very ashamed that she thought I was slovenly.

One day while I was begging my Beloved about this situation, I told him that I was going to hire a pest removal service, because I could no longer handle the disapproving looks of my parents every time they visited me. It was when my Beloved led me to be still one more time out of so many times.

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

I think I was working on those areas of my life, pride, patience, maintaining a habit of cleanliness, which he commented so many times was not something I could do naturally; keeping quiet and embracing my parents' challenge, my ex-husband's call for attention. I think he worked a lot on me, humility and waiting.

“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.” Habakkuk 2:4

There was no way to change the situation, I had already exhausted everything that had occurred to me, when after several months I gave up and let the challenges be direct and embraced the comments with the possible causes of the plague and just smiled and He said that he was going to follow his advice; my dears, when I accepted without any discomfort that my ex mother-in-law helped me clean, when I stopped feeling bad mostly because of what people thought of me, that was when my Beloved acted.

“That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.” 1 Peter 4:2

In the simplest and most effortless way, one day I went shopping at my neighborhood store and overheard a conversation between the owner and a customer about a product for cockroaches, which she had always sold and had even prevented her business will be filled with that plague. I laughed because in fact I had tried everything and nothing worked, but my Beloved took me to ask him directly about the price of the product, when I realized, I was already paying him one so that the order would arrive days later.

When I left the store, I told Amado that I didn't understand why I had rushed and placed the order, but that I trusted that impulse came from him. A few days after receiving the product, I prepared to do a mega cleaning to put in every corner of the house, but my Beloved guided me to do a moderate cleaning and put little, very little product for the type of pest I had, and few . Days later I noticed that there was no trace of those animals, I was surprised. Only He could have guided me there to that store, at the exact moment of that conversation. Today I can thank you because I only used that product three weeks in a row in really small quantities, just a few sprays in the house and it was enough for that pest to disappear completely.

I am so happy, because not only did HE remove that plague that could bring illnesses and that, to be honest, brought me a lot of shame during those months, I saw that my Beloved with that also had an objective by working on my pride that I believed gave me my strength (constancy ). in cleaning) it depended on there not being pests in my house, but He showed me that if He told me to wait it was because He had a plan, He made me reconsider the times when it is enough to just wait for Him to work because His solution is so simple . , easy without any effort, I really looked ridiculous trying to do it in my strength and trying to protect my image in front of others.

"For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light." Matthew 11:30