This is a blog post for mothers. I am going to give it to you straight.
You
have so much to offer the world. You have so much to offer to God.
Don't you think God gave you your personality and your talent for a
reason?
Of course!
Satan does NOT want you to use your
talents or your magnetic personality. He wants you to think you are a
failure. He wants you to look at your faults. He wants you to think you
cannot possibly have something to offer others. He wants you to think
that you are not likeable or loveable. He wants to defeat you.
Why?
You know how he works! You are a terrible threat to him! You have a
talent that was given to you by God for a purpose. Satan wants the
world to be ugly and people to be lonely. He does not want you to
accomplish what God has for you.
You could be used by God in
an awesome ministry, even if only for an audience the size of your
little family (to God I doubt the number of people we touch in a
lifetime matters, but that we touch the ones we were put here to
touch). But you will never have a ministry - not one of any kind, not
even one to your family - unless you stop listening to Satan's lies. In
order to be used by God, you must force yourself to listen only to God
while shutting out Satan's lies.
God NEVER, NEVER focuses us on our faults. Satan does.
I once heard that guilt is from Satan, conviction is from God.
Satan wants us to think we are bad mothers (I hear that one daily from him, too!). He likes "mommy guilt."
God
would NEVER tell us that we are bad mothers. He is the eternal
optimist! He can see what we cannot see. He can see our potential. He
may convict us, as He did to me when I needed to apologize to our
nine-year-old a couple of nights ago, after yelling at him for hurting
his sister. I did not handle it well at all. After I sent him to bed in
tears, I felt God convicting me to go to him and apologize. I did that
and he and I had a nice time together, talking (children are so
forgiving!).
Later, I felt guilt and in tears I said aloud, "I
am such a bad mother! I mess up every single day!" But since I've been
working on recognizing that mommy guilt is not from God, I didn't allow
my mind to stay there.
God would not want me to say that or to think that.
Saying
that I am a bad mother does not glorify Him at all. He does not think
I'm a bad mother. He doesn't even think the worst mother in the world
is a bad mother. Instead, He sees the mother that she could be. Only
Satan is served by me thinking that I am a bad mother.
Those
words of doubt and guilt that you hear are coming from Satan. He wants
you to believe them. If you believe that you have nothing to offer God,
then Satan wins because you will not offer anything to God.
Remember,
God is the eternal optimist! He sees the wonderful mother, wife and
woman that we are capable of being and He ENCOURAGES us to be that
person.
God bless you today!
(Originally published on my 2005-2008 Keeping the Home blog)
Sunday, June 26, 2005 - Posted by Donnabooshay
I love your straight forward style!
This was a wonderful post to read this Sunday morning :o)
Thank you for your wise words.
Donna
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 - Wow!
Posted by amyjl
I fall for that mommy guilt all the time. Thank you for the reminder that it is not of God!
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 -
Posted by KeepingtheHome
Ooops, Donna, I just changed my blog template and only now noticed that it's just like yours! Great minds think alike! I'm making a few changes, so hopefully we won't be Identical Twins!
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 - Thanks
Posted by Proverbsch22v6Homeschool
Thanks I needed that!
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - Posted by bethbriggs
Good stuff--you are right on...constructive conviction is from the Lord, beating yourself up, NOT!
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Monday, August 29, 2005 - Printer is going!
Posted by Melissa
This one got printed for my binder and sent to all my Mommy friends :)
Posted by: Misc. | 10/13/2009 at 07:21 PM