Faith-Filled Friday
Good, Morning Coffee Hour Friends. Grab a cup of
coffee and sit with me. Thank you in advance for taking time and joining
me for Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power and Faith Filled Friday with Trench Classes United.
Recently, God put things into perspective for me and my hubby. It
was the weekend and we were going about our day-to-day life, but sickness had
hit our home hard. It went from both our kids to my hubby, and then to me. I
thought I was fine and it was just a sinus infection. However, it turned out to
be much worse for me than I ever expected.
Monday morning, I woke up feeling better than I felt in a
week, but I had a horrible pain in my right side of my chest. I thought I had
just slept wrong. That night I went to urgent care to then be rushed to the
hospital by ambulance. Turns out it was pneumonia, and not a sinus infection,
and the chest pain was as a result of my inflamed right lung. See, my heart was
working overtime to keep up with the chaos going on inside my body. It was
quiet scary for my husband and me.
I love how this verse comes to life even as I write this for
you: “But when I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. I praise God for what
he has promised. I trust in God, so why should I be afraid? What can mere
mortals do to me?” Psalms 56:3-4
As more doctors than I can count scrambled around me in the ER,
my husband shared with me his fears he had while everything was happening. He
told me he didn’t know what bills needed to be paid, where anything was in the
house, and if there enough money to pay the bills. I tried to assure him I’d be
all right.
But as I was alone in my hospital bed, I realized that I took no
time for myself, no down time to just rest. I’m always busy, caught in the day-to-day
work to keep everyone and everything else going.
Through this hospital stint, God gave my husband and I a much
better perspective. My husband realized that though I do it all and was happy
to do it, I needed help…his help. God spoke to me that I need to let him help
and I need to take time for me, to decompress, to rest and refresh.
6 So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic
before them. For the Lord your
God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon
you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 (NLT)
Are you going through a sickness, a change at work, a layoff, a
relationship problem, or even a broken marriage? I encourage you beloveds,
through the scary circumstances, go ahead and ask God to give you His perspective.
What is it that He wants you to see and or change?
Change, I know, can be scary and we often put it off, but God
knows what’s best for us, for me and my family, and while I detest change, I am
embracing it today. I am thanking God for opening my husband and my eyes to see
that we were off balance and didn’t even know it.
Let me encourage you in this truth: He will never leave your
side, and will never guide you down the wrong path. He cherishes us and wants
the very best for you and me.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” say the Lord. They are
plans for a good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
Ashley
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