It was one of those days. I wasn't feeling well but I had to go to work. I didn't want to go to work anyway, but I had to because my husband coudn't get a job and our plans kept falling apart. It was cold and wet. Customers kept opening the door making the shop colder. Then they kept moaning at me over things I had no control over or patronising me at the end of the transaction. Didn't they know that I didn't even want to be here, that i'd rather be at home with a baby or two, but that through a series of events, totally outside of my husbands control, here I was, temporarily the main bread winner and that their moaning in my ear was only increasing my already thumping headache? Then to top it all off, in came some children's book I hadn't ordered. As I huffed and puffed about soemone ordering some light weight childrens book over my head, I began to flick through it, and there it was, 1 Peter 3: 15. The text we chose to have engraved inside our wedding rings, the verse which my mum cross stitched for us and now hangs on the wall in our hall:
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord.
I'd heard the verse so many times but it spoke home to me so much that day. I wasn't revering Christ as Lord. I wasn't trusting that his plans were far greater than ours. Wayne Grudem says:
"To reverence Christ as Lord means to really believe and insist that God not ones human openents is truely in control of events."
It all seemed so easy when we got it inscribed on our wedding rings, but day to day reality can make it so much harder. But we must and when we truely do, it's such an encouragement, even on those days when nothing goes right!
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