Who would have thought one instruction could be so tough to live out?
We might do okay living out this passage normally until it’s time for church on Sunday morning and you have a few kids that need to be ready to go.
Mysteriously, one of the shoes and half of the clothing you set out the night before disappeared and, of course, both socks are MIA. You now have 5 minutes until departure.
When you’re child comes downstairs drowning in His older brother’s shirt, one black and one neon green sock, reaching for his farm boots, how will you react?
God desires that we react in love; quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger. I have to confess, when we had 20 kids at home, I did not always respond in love.
Often times I let my schedule and my expectations get in the way of carrying out God’s instruction. My mouth moved to complaining of how this “always happens”.
Jesus was concerned about love far more than schedule. Following Him not only requires us to surrender ourselves, but also our schedules and expectations.
This is certainly an area we can all grow in. What scenarios are you most tempted to fail at this instruction?
What’s one thing you can do to help keep focus on this instruction rather than your schedule or expectation?
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