ME time

This culture makes me weary. So often we hear, "You need to get away. You need to take time for yourself." What does that really mean anyway? Will a pedicure really solve the frustrations of motherhood? This world is telling me daily that I need to do what's best for me. If it works for me, it must be right. And this world is especially telling mothers that we NEED time away from our children. We need to send them to school, take them to Grandma's house, or send them to daycare so we can go do something more fulfilling or more restful than constantly being "needed" by our children. We need to follow our hearts and do what is most fulfilling in our own minds.

But God...

There is a way that seems right to man,

but its end is the way to death.

-Proverbs 14:12

God hasn't taught us to follow our hearts. Our hearts will only lead us to destruction. He has called us to worship Him by presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice. A sacrifice requires loss or death. We must continually die to ourselves in order to Glorify God. How much joy will we find if we die to our own desires every time our children need us?

Let us not listen to the culture that presses us to desert our families for me time, but let us run the race with perseverance, knowing that God will sustain us with the strength to walk and not grow weary.

Father, help me to seek more of Christ and less of me.