Thursday night or rather, early Friday morning a big thunderstorm came to visit me. Thunder, rain, lightning, hail............the works. Of course this storm blew through just a couple of hours after I had drifted off to sleep (with plans to get up early the next day). To cut to the chase, I didn't rest well that night. Now, anyone in my family knows that when I lose sleep I tend to get grumpy. So, the next day my mother got the brunt of my grouchiness. Everything anyone said was wrong, ridiculous, crazy...................basically anything but the right thing was said (at least that's what it sounded like to me) and my mother got the most of my wonderful attitude. All of this simply to say...................................I AM WICKED! I have a deceitful and desperately wicked heart. Just because I lost a little bit of sleep I turned into godzilla. Is that how a Christian young woman should act? No! She should do her best to be kind and patient, no matter what the circumstances. This is one of my goals now: To not let myself be rude and selfish just because everything is not going my way. Okay, I got that off of my chest now. Sorry for venting.
It is these kinds of days that we can really thank God for His magnificent grace in our lives. You know I'm like that too. And it's so wonderful to relate it to the Gospel. That Christ took our sinful murmerings over petty things on His shoulders, taking the shame and the wrath we deserve. Just makes me want to jump up and praise God's Name right now. Isn't He awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteAmen, Shelby!!!! He is worthy to be praised!
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