Some Mary Time

My fellow pastors wives at CityView, Taber and Angela.  we pray & do life together. we laugh and cry together. we celebrate and struggle together.  so blessed because of them.  love these girls!!!!!

rick noticed recently that he and i seemed to be pretty much in synch in what was changing about us. was i folowing his unspoken leadership or was the Lord just nudging us both in the same direction? Doesn’t matter, really, how it was happening, it just matters that we were moving in the same direction.  *love this man i get to go through life with!*

and then as i sat in service this morning, i realized that it was happening again. the Lord was teaching us the same thing — only with a slightly different context.  today’s text: matthew 19, the rich young ruler. the guy knows something is lacking. Jesus asks him to give it all away — hold on to nothing except your love and worship of the One True God.  rick’s call: don’t leave any chips on the table — go “all in” — pour your life out. (except he said it much better. have i mentioned that i’m crazy about my pastor?)

i mentioned in my last post that i knew the Lord was teaching me some things through this whole broken body thing.  something that’s been on my heart for a while now overwhelmed me last night: i have been so busy for God that i’ve forgotten what it means to be content to sit at the feet of my Savior.  church planting is alot of work. i like to work. but i’ve been much too much of a martha and not a mary. mary sat at jesus’ feet. martha was a busy gal. she was doing good things, but missed the best thing. luke 10:41-42, “But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary.” that one thing is Christ Himself!

as my fellow pastor wives can tell you, i’ve known this is what i needed to do for quite a while.  i am so grateful that the Lord has forced my hand (pun intended.)   Rick’s challenge was to lay it all on the table. so i’m laying it all out there — all my ‘things’ that i do in the church, trusting that even if He chooses not to fill positions, or if things aren’t done quite like i’d have done them, it doesn’t matter. HE matters. HE will accomplish His purposes and His name will be made Great no matter what i do or don’t do. in this season i will be obiedient and let go.

i trust Him to work this out to His glory!

what about you? anything getting in the way of you and jesus? is there anything you are holding back? is He also calling you into an area of obedience?