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, tree-decorating, meal-planning, welcoming guests… is all-consuming.
There is a thief that is also busy and focuses on robbing us of the best. In “The Royal Christmas to Remember” book, the five princesses are busy in the kitchen preparing for their Christmas celebration, when their activity is abruptly interrupted by circumstances beyond their control. Marauders had envaded their town and the thieves were now bursting into their kitchen! What could they do?
As busy moms, time in the Word can be lost to the immediate demands of responsibility and the whirlwind of activity around us. The thief is at our front door! 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 or inconvenienced.
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 letting the thief have my private time in the Word and not allowing it to dwell richly in me, and my family is intensely mindful of my desperate need! The princesses were quick to assess their priorities and act accordingly, bringing joy to their father the king. They were tested in the thickest of all that was happening around them and passed the test with flying colors.
When tested… what is our response when:
· We are evil spoken of
· Our loyalty has been betrayed
· Our will is crossed
· We are forgotten or neglected
· Our friends forsake us or
· We find compromise more inviting than maintaining claimed convictions?
Our response reveals the REAL us,
as it did our princesses.
When confronted with the “time robber”,
Are we women of conviction or double-minded ones?
(The definition of a “double-minded” person is the practice of one who is willfully in conflict with their soul (mind, will, emotions).
Which are you?
Choose carefully this holiday season.
Little prince and princesses are watching and learning…
~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.
