Practice

Hmmmm....okay now comes the hard part.  Putting this living out of victory thing into every day life practice.  Since this morning, I have been given 2 extra jobs to do. (It's my vacation for crying out loud--don't I get a break)  Well that was my thinking as the "extras" starting coming during the 1st hour of my waking !!

First off, my Mom decided she didn't want the coat she received for Christmas. Ok, not really a big deal, except now I have to go over to the mall and stand on the loooonnnngggg return line.  Sigh.  Next up....the heater disguised as a side table I purchased for my husband for Christmas is making entirely too much noise.          
(insert another audible sigh here).    So here's how this conversation with the Lord goes:  Oh this is just great Lord, something else I have to take care of.  (make sure I bring up the vacation thing again..lol).   Where's the box it came in? (I run out to the garbage, no they haven't taken it yet, but it's not there) Great I got rid of it...me, the one who keeps all the receipts and boxes have gotten rid of the ONE I really needed!!  God, can't You just help me with anything!?!?!?  Thanks a lot !!  Can you say "being a brat"?

 Ok.  Maybe there is something in the instructions.  Of course, no phone #, just an email....ok put it on the to do list.   Now my husband gets up.  I talk to him about it.  Asking about the box...oh!  Low and behold!  He has put it in the garage!  Ummm, oops, sorry about the not helping thing Lord.  

So this is the 1st hour of my day.  And by now the living in victory thing is no where in sight.  So I come into the computer room (calling it an office in my house just seems a little too pretentious for my purposes) and on the wall I keep a sign posted with the verse:  "For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future"

That verse just flew off the wall right into my heart!  I heard the Holy Spirit say, that is the verse you should be living out of today.  The victory.  Faith and trust. What if I had looked at all these annoyances with that attitude instead of the way I did?  What might my conversation with God looked like, sounded like?  Then I thought about it some more...what if I took a different verse every day and worked on living out of that verse ( remember, the Word is living!).  How much more alive would my life look, and feel and be if I was living out of the living Word of God?

Lord, help me to live out of Your Word today.  Help me to keep it front and center in my mind and heart and mouth.  Forgive me for my tantrums.  And thank You for using all this as another enlightening lesson for me.  You are so patient and kind and loving.  Help me to remember that always.