Tuesday In Other Words

Good morning and praise the Lord. Today the quot for Tuesday In Other Words is meaningful to me since essentially I am a private person.

"No matter how many good friends I had, there were aspects of my life I needed to deal with alone - heart issues and attitudes that could not be wrestled with in a Bible study...They had to be confronted by the Holy Spirit in the privacy of my own soul."

One aspect and maybe the biggest battle fought in my life with the Lord and with my family. I was getting caught up in working out of the home and making a pay check and thinking of me and no one else. About six months into the job, the Holy Spirit began working in my life since I was really wondering who I was. Was I a mother? Was I a wife? Was I an individual who should be identified as just Joyce? Wrestling defiantly had to be fought in privacy since I did not want any one to know I did not know who I was. From the beginning of the battle I knew it was a heart issue. I was feeling lost in my walk with the Lord because I was feeling guilty for working out of the home. With the help of the Holy Spirit and a personal Bible study of my own I realized first I was a child of God, then I was a wife, and then a mother to two beautiful daughters. When that realisation occurred then I could be a true person who loved the Lord with my whole heart and I could love my husband, children, and myself and not feel guilty I some days I could switch those loves around and know it did not matter to the scheme of things as long as God was and is the center of my life. My life verse is Philippians 4:13 and in my words it says: I can do all things in the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I can praise the Lord, because I am all these individuals and sometimes I am one over the others and I know beyond a shadow of doubt that it does not matter in the scheme of life.