Noise
gets on my nerves.
The
kids have toys that make noise and depending on my frame of mind I might be
able to tolerant the noise for a little while but, usually, it is not
long. Sometimes they barely begin to
play and I tell them to take it somewhere else or put it away.
What
noise do I make? I rise each morning and
spend time with the Lord. I write my
little devotion and send it out. Where
do I go from there? When I am teaching
with a voice of frustration, when I am nagging my kids to get their chores
done, when I am lamenting to friends about some random bother, do I have a
voice of love or am I am noisy clanging gong?
I
need to take a breath or two. I need to
allow the love of God to well up in me.
Only then am I able to teach in love, discipline in love, and fellowship
in love.
When
I allow the love of God to fill me am I a vessel of his love and only then can
I send sounds of love to the world around me.
Lord,
Soften my heart to be more like
you. I receive your love and I pray for
many in love but when I get to the mundane things of everyday life, I become a
noisy gong. Help me see and do with eyes
and hands like yours. Keep love flowing
in me like an ocean so that it never stops, ever. Amen.
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