Who's "Help" Do I Need?

“Do you ever wish you could…change things?” she asks. “Oh no, ma’am, everything’s fine.” (pg.12)

I feel like we can all relate to this thought, and many times I bet you like me are the one who sits around with your friends asking the same question Skeeter asks Aibileen “don’t you wish you could change things?” Sometimes we think we ARE that change. And WE’VE got the remedy to alter the way things are…

So before we know it we see a need and plow full force before anyone else can react. Whether we want to admit it or not the things that go through our head is “who else is gonna do it? Who else is gonna make sure it gets done, the “right” way?” –can I get an Amen??

But seriously, we are women who do want to see change, that’s why we do what we do day in and day out, but for some reason we put all that load and responsibility of change on our own backs and not on the One who is more than capable to part the waters and shake the mountains.
Whatever your spiritual battle field, that battle was going on long before we got there, God has been using people long before we became engaged on the battle fronts He has placed us. Also, warrior women we need to remember God has engraved the names of the people we are trying to fight for on this earth on His Papa hands. Those we love, those we are sharing gospel living with God knew and loved them LONG before we did and he loves them that much more deeply than we.

So yes, let us continue to be women who seek change in this broken world, may we continue to fight for the things God would have us fight for, but may we also be women who remember the One who is LEADING us. These are His battles; we are simply the warriors who have chosen to take up arms and fight. God has full responsibility for the people we engage with, so may we be women who loosen our hands and instead of holding onto them tightly, may we lift them up to their Heavenly Father-sometimes we have to get out of our own way in order to see God work in people’s lives around us.

“Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this, that power belongs to God,-Psalm 62:11

“And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.”-I Cor. 6:14

Week’s Spiritual Rhythm: This week every morning, throughout the day, and before you go to bed recite the prayer below. May it guide you in discerning when God is telling you to step in, when He’s telling you to trust Him, and when He’s asking you to step aside for Him to do His work. It could alter the way you fight-you may just find that peace we hear so often about.

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr