♕ Today's Promise: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
Dear brides, this chapter will blow your mind! Rather than run and escape, allow that His love guide you through the adversity, He wants to teach you how!
Like Erin shared with us in one of her Living Lessons, I keep on asking my Heavenly Husband where He is leading me, where are we going to? Every night I lay down in my bed and talk to Him 🙂 And the place He keeps showing me is my favorite one by the sea, where the waves break. The funniest thing is that I can feel the water temperature that it is not as cold as the beach I have close to where I live, but it is warm as the beaches in the northeast of my country! He is so gentle and really has a great sense of humor 🙂
After waking up with these memories, I asked Him, "why always the beach?" and He led me to the Chapter 3, “The Wave of Adversity” in Living the Abundant Life book. Wow, I really needed to read it again and realized that my Heavenly Husband keeps showing me the sea, because He wants me to "swim out to where it was deep, then turn to watch for the big waves, and rather than fighting against it, I would confidently then turn and paddle towards shore, choosing to work with the wave and use its fury to ride it to its destination..."
I have to tell you that at this time, there was a special part in this chapter that blows my mind, let me make it clear... a week from now I'll have to work in another city, which means that I'll be far from my kids from Monday to Friday - it's a huge wave striking all of us, including EH that is worried, and doesn't know if we could handle it, but at the same time, he keeps on saying that we still need my salary in our budget and he doesn't know how to handle it 🙁
Deep inside of me, I have to confess that sometimes I feel that eh should do something and make me stay with our kids, telling me to quit the job. Thanks to my HH, I know that eh can't do this, because I read at "They don't have" - at FAL book and I know he really doesn't have the resources and I also think that my bossy behaviour keeps him thinking that I could not be a stay at home mom...
Back to the part in this chapter that blows my mind...here it is: "So if I am going to let adversity strike not just me, but my children, without my being tempted to step in between them or even cushioning the blow done to them, then I must make sure to give them and teach them the principles and be the example for them to see how."
I have to confess that I don't know how to do it! I keep on feeling the fear of our future that is so close to us now! So I also confess that from the moment I knew that my life, our lives are going to change so much, I began thinking in so many ways to escape and resist the evil that was coming against me. So I had to read it: "So for me, the most important thing in my life (next to my intimacy with my Beloved Lord) is to see each of my children walking a powerful and intimate relationship with the Lord themselves. Which means that they too will need to walk a life filled with adversity in order to experience Him. Yes, like Erin, “I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in Truth” (3 John 1:4).
I really don't know how and if it is going to happen the way it seems to be planned, the way everybody seems to adore to ask me "how are you going to handle it?" Meaning how I am able to be apart from my kids for so many days in a week...But what I really know is that "I’m not alone in being taken through adversity."
Thank You, my Beloved for having Erin, Michele and lots of women that went through RMI's resources not only reading about it, but by walking through it, after experiencing Your love and having intimacy with You and seeking for You to help us through each of our difficult situations and this is what I really want for me and my family!
Please help me to become an example to my children and to help them to know the amazing father they have in You <3
Pray with me: Please, my Dear change my heart and my mind in order to find peace in the midst of all I've been going through now. I trust in what YOU have for us!
In this chapter I learned that I should trust and keep on trusting even with the big waves coming against me! Not only this, I was taught that it is an opportunity to become an example for my children for them to trust and to venture out a bit further into the waves, because they have a Heavenly Dad there to rescue them!
Matthew 6:34 New International Version (NIV) "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
This verse is not in this chapter of the book, but I can't help stop thinking of the wonderful promise while reading across these powerful words \o/
After Finding the Abundant Life, Living the Abundant Life is the book which teaches you not only with words, but with situations, examples of the brides being loved by the most wonderful Husband!
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