Did you enjoy your Thanksgiving week-end?
These are busy days, are they not? Friends and family gathered recently for Thanksgiving and Christmas is just around the corner, lapping at our heels! Preparation time, decorating, planning… is all-consuming and there is a thief that is also busy and focuses on robbing us of the best.
Time in the Word can be lost to the immediate demands of responsibility and the whirlwind of activity around us. Finding a “War Room” where we can read and pray, uninterrupted, is imperative to maintaining our walk. Little things can begin to bother us and when people “bump” us, we react selfishly.
Sound familiar?
One day away from the Word and I am aware of my desperate need and its crucial impact in my life. Two days of skipping a time of allowing the Word to dwell richly in me and my husband, girls and grandkids are intensely mindful of my desperate need!
The test:
What is my response when:
· I am evil spoken of
· My loyalty has been betrayed
· My will is crossed
· I am forgotten or neglected
· My friends forsake me
· I find compromise more inviting than maintaining claimed convictions
My reaction reveals the REAL me:
Am I a virtuous woman or a woman of hypocrisy?
(Hypocrisy is the practice of a person who is willfully living
in conflict with their soul (their mind, will, emotions).
Which are you?
We choose...
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
