Ok, I don't know if lizards are considered warfare to you, but over here they are serious business. Occasionally one gets in our house when we open the door to let out the dogs or cats. Because we don't like to catch them with our hands (unless my husband is home) or kill them, getting them out usually involves some screaming and chasing with a broom until the lizard runs out the door.
So yesterday when I was on my way home from work, my daughter called and was kinda freaking out. Apparently 4 lizards crawled at just about the same time into our living room from the window unit. Really. 4. I just happened to be a little ways from home so I called my mom to go to my house and help my kids. They basically just stood there watching the lizards until I got home because apparently I'm the expert haha.
About an hour or a little more later, all 4 had been either chased out or caught in various containers and let go. This of course led to moving all furniture and then what do you do? You clean under the sofas and rug and everything else you moved. Did I mention to you that was my only time to clean the whole house because a social worker was meeting here the next morning early to do a first home visit?
So stress is snowballing, and we still know we can't be approved in this house, and my husband is stressed and overloaded with work, and my daughter is still going through a breakup, and I can never seem to get caught up with everything, and did I mention we may or may not have a mouse in the kitchen. 18 years in this house- never had a mouse and all of a sudden on the very week of our first home visit.
I'm not stupid. I know that as burdened as my heart is for abused/neglected children, God feels the same way. I also believe that Satan wants nothing more than for those kids to stay in the situations they are in, because then they have a higher chance of repeating the cycle. Even last night, when my husband and I were on the way to class we had thoughts of - maybe we are too busy to do this. Oh my heart is sad to think that we could be too busy with running in the hamster wheel of our lives to have time for the hurting and broken people of this world.
As soon as we got to class and began discussion, once again it was confirmed in my heart that this is where God wants me. No matter what darts the devil throws, I will fight back with the Word of God and walk in this path that He has for me.
Ephesians 6:10,11
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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