My family has spent a lot of quality time together over the past few weeks. We've been making a point to eat dinner together, do devotions together, and spend time having fun and enjoying one another.
I set out to make this a really great summer and as a team we've accomplished that, but today was an all out challenge. Our son woke up on the wrong side of something this morning and hit the day off with a bang.
He spent the entire day getting in trouble for lying, talking back, annoying the other kids for his own entertainment, not listening....you name it, he probably got in trouble for it.
By the end of the day I was so flustered. I ruined 2 pitchers of lemonade, cursed extremely loud in front of the kids, and tap danced on the vein of a tantrum. Finally after dinner, I had to take a second and go to my room to pray...alone. Just me and God. Once I did that I was able to regroup and go back out and spend the remainder of our family time together. But it didn't take long for my son (and his sisters) to kick it back into gear.
Satan was trying to set me up and he was using my baby to do so. Because I have been doing all I could to praise God everyday for all that he is doing in my life. I know the things going on can only be from Him and the fact that I'm taking my mind off of all the distracting stuff, satan hopes to cause me to shift gears.
He almost got me...he almost pushed me to a point of pure irritation, but I just sent my kids to bed, shouted an occasional warning for their least favorite nighttime punishment and flipped through my bible.
John 10:10 tells me that "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance"
My pastor recently said that "happiness is based on what happens, but joy is knowing God is there no matter what happens."
Satan was able to momentarily walk away with my happiness, but thank God, I still have my joy.
I pray tomorrow will be a better day for our household and we can go back to having a good time. Satan was just a little upset that we have been doing things the right way and he wanted to throw a fit too. We both got it out of our systems...now let's move on. God's got me covered. So I'll be taking that happiness on back too....THANKS!!!! :P
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