Hope for a Weary Soul

                                                        Hope for A Weary Soul…
   Are you weary? Do you feel like the world is crashing in around you? Do you feel overwhelmed? Overworked? And Under-payed?? Do you feel like your world is a huge mess?
   Did you know in the gospel of Luke it tells that:
*Jesus came to a messy world
*He was born in a stable
*His parents~pretty much unmarried
*He chose to walk with messy people
*His best friends were fishermen
*He was known to hang out with tax collectors
*He left His ministry in the hands of uneducated men
*He ate with sinners
*He let a scandalous woman wash His feet
*He rubbed elbows with the rejects of society
Time and time again Jesus met people in their mess and offered them hope! And the Bible says He is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever! He wants to meet us in the middle of our mess, too.
   Can you believe when we pour out our miseries. God just hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give!
   Are you like me in that you get so overwhelmed that you just want to pick up the phone and call your husband (or like me I do call him) and share the troubles of the day & let him know you need him home RIGHT NOW!? And If He doesn't get home with some Pepsi & Chocolate and to help you that you will explode in 10 minutes.? Okay, sometimes I do, do this but I know he is miles away and can’t come but you know what He understands and He will be there and help me through whatever situation I am in as much as he can via phone.
   That would be on days where, someone was playing in the bathroom and got water and soap everywhere, and another took tools and scratched the walls and dressers and took a hammer and made notches into the door & wall. While another got all the movies and DVDs out. While another one has torn a few books and written in others. Someone has dumped the trash and when you were making bread you accidentally dropped the oil and a good portion of the floor gets covered. And when you go to discipline the first child then 2 of the others start to fighting. That my friend is when I pick up the phone and as soon as my husband answers I just cry.
    Why not go to the Heavenly Father and cry & pray & pour your heart out to Him? He will meet you in the mess and He will be right there with you if you ask Him to! So often I forget and I just pick up the phone and pour my heart out to my husband when really I need to be calling out to God! I’m not saying I can’t call or share with my husband but if I called on God first then I’m sure I’d save my poor husband a lot of stress. Cause he wouldn't have to calm me down God would of already done it!
   How often do you feel like your just not a good mom? You feel lost and helpless? You just feel plain weak? You know what God says, “It’s OK to be weak. It’s OK to not know what to do or how to do it. It’s OK that you don’t have the answers, I do! It’s OK to feel lost. It’s OK to need help. It’s OK you’re not perfect, I was! It’s OK to fail. It’s OK to get things wrong! It’s OK to be WEAK, because in your weakness I AM strong.”
   Do you feel like your house is always dirty with piles of dishes all around and loads of laundry on the couch or in baskets to be folded? The carpet full of popcorn and needing to be swept? When you look around and you don’t know where to start I challenge you to pray Asking Jesus to Come to you, in your mess. To your kitchen (or wherever) but first to your heart. And let Him know you are in need of His grace. As soon as you call, He will come running. He brings His Word to wrap around your heart! He says things like:

Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10 (New American Standard)

“Come to me, all you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 (New Living Translation)

He wants to help us and comfort us! Hope wants to lift my heavy burdens and give my soul rest. But we have to be honest about our struggles then we can receive comfort. Then nothing is between us and hope reaches straight to our hearts. Our house may still look like a disaster or like its been hit by a tornado but God can lean in and whisper to us and let us know that He will help us!  What if instead of hiding alone in our messes we would clump? Clump as in getting together and laughing and doing life together. Cause If I have my guess right I’m not the only mother who has had these feelings.
    If you remember the story of Hagar in Genesis 11 she was a mom in the middle of a dark & desperate situation. But God had her precisely where He wanted her--weary & worn. She was in a place where she could hear Him speak. God didn't send her back weary & worn. He had a promise for her to claim as her own. A promise of life. A promise of a future. A promise of mercy. He had pursued her heart, not because she deserved it, but because that is who He is.  God wants to do the same for us if we will allow Him too.
   We don’t really want a mocha frappe when we are weary. What we really want is rest for our weary souls. We have got to get into the habit of running to God and not from Him.
   And I’m speaking to myself!! Honestly if no other good comes from this blog it done me a world of good and was a great reminder to me! And a challenge.  I took a lot of phrases out of the book called Hope for the Weary Mom Written by: Stacey Thacker & Brooke McGlothlin. If you could identify with this blog and you get a chance to read this book I’d encourage you to do so! It has been a huge blessing to me. God definitely knew when I needed it!!  Hugs and prayers to you and I pray you will have a Blessed Day and will Have a renewed kind of day!  Don’t forget to turn on music when you go back to work it will help you to Praise & worship God in your storm of life! God’s Blessings to all~    
                                                                            ~From One Weary Traveler~