Seasons
28 July, 2010
Whilst lying in bed this cold winters morning with my iPad bible (gotta love the 21st century) open to Matthew 5 in The Message, I'm yet again stirred and reminded of how blessed I really am.
Last night we were mobilised and challenged as the girls gathered at Sisterhood United. God moved in a way that only He could. Collectively, for sure, but let me share what He did in my own heart. This morning I woke up full - almost ready to burst - and I'm not just talking about my 9-month baby belly! I'm full spiritually, which can only mean one thing - and that's to pour it out, get empty again, learn more, seek more and be filled to overflowing once again.
At face value, I'm a 25-year-old girl married to an amazing man, accepted into a wonderful family with a little girl and another one on the way. I'm a homemaker who is smack-bang in the middle of ‘baby season’. I go to church, I catch up with friends and I raise my babies the best that I can.... but that's not all! At the risk of sounding like I'm trying to sell you an extra set of steak knives...it really isn't all!
My beautiful God continuously reminds me, that there is no season in my life where He can't use me for His glory. In fact, it’s when we realise the power of being comfortable in the season that we are in, than it’s in that place that I believe we are most effective in our walk with Him.
I may be in the ‘baby season’. I may turn up to church with baby food stains on my clothes and a bag that's filled with everything I need for "just in case situations". I might even spend the majority of the meetings in the mothers room whilst trying to negotiate hearing the Word and feeding a baby.... but what if it is in this season that God has His biggest plans set out for me!
It blows my mind to think of the grand, intricate planning that it took by my Heavenly Father to say, get me into a mothers room at a certain time to encourage someone else that needs it more than ever or be it finding a whole new secret place with Him when I'm at the end of my rope at 2am with a crying baby and a snoring husband. Ha ha.
Whatever the case...He reminded me that no season is unimportant, so keep your ears, eyes, heart and mind open and soft always. Not ONE of us is perfect, we are real people doing the ups and downs of life together and when we realise that it doesn't take perfection to be used of God, how refreshing and liberating! You mean ‘I can be used of God whilst I'm stepping in a pothole or 10??’ Yes!! In fact, God delights in using normal, broken people to reach...normal broken people!
So, be encouraged, and like my beautiful mama-in-law said "Let the road teach you what it needs to in life.” For me, in this season, it has taught me as Matthew 5:5 (MSG) so profoundly teaches - ‘You’re blessed when you’re content with just who you are - no more, no less -that's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that cannot be bought’.... Beautiful!
So...from this simple girl and pregnant mummy - a thought of an encouragement: Don't fight the season! Understand that there is gold in every single stage of life. What sort of world would we live in if we each decided to be Gods hands and feet wherever we found ourselves in life? Don’t count yourself unworthy, or unable, not ready, not ripe. He can and will use you, if we'll only let Him...Selah!
All my love, Lucille.
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