Several years ago in the midst of emptying my dishwasher for the Xth time and muttering frustrating thoughts that I was empting my dishwasher for the Xth time God spoke to me and told me that I was harboring harsh feelings within myself and to let them go. “What did you say God, I’m too busy to listen to you because I’m too immersed in complaining in my head that I’m emptying my dishwasher?” Not sure if you can relate but perhaps there is something else you negatively self talk to yourself.
Our Made to Crave leader Lysa came and spoke at my church a number of years ago and one of the stories she told was somewhat similar to what I mentioned above but hers was scraping dried up Cheerios off the floor after her kids had gone off to school. She too was complaining in her head. Then God spoke to her and asked her “what if you had no one to drop those Cheerios?” That changed her perspective to start to think about that with all the things we “need to do in life” there are amazing gifts that proceed and come after.
Having just emptied my dishwasher before writing this I thought, you know I’m not complaining. But can I tell you how long I had to pray about that and pray away the other tapes I would play in my head?
I bring all this up because last week we began in our small/large group to talk about negative self talk. I feel this is so important that we tackle this. Running negative comments about yourself or anything for that matter only separates us from God. It’s hard to hear God when we’re busy thinking these thoughts. If you struggle with this I encourage you to pray for God to lift this burden from you. I did and my life has truly changed. Does that mean that I’m perfect, we all know the answer is no. But I will tell you I’m living a much happier life and one where God’s guidance is with me, and for that I’m so very thankful.
Have a wonderful week! Would love to know if anyone had had the guts to block out the numbers on their scale with the word Peace (smile)…
Prayed for all of you during my beach walk this am.
Hugs to all,
Sabra
No comments:
Post a Comment