Because Of Mom

So I’ve recently been posting and changing my profile pictures to pictures of people who have significantly impacted my life. First and foremost – GOD has saved me. I know my eternal fate will be with him. But God DOES use other people in our life and he promises to use it for good whatever the circumstances are if you LOVE him.

I’ve thought a lot over the last few days and will continue to think about the people, places, and things that have made a positive impact on my life.

Even my pets I've thought about and been thankful for each one.

The bottom line comes down to this:

Your parents.

Your parents gave you life – through God’s power or “chemistry” – whatever you wanna call it. 

It WAS your parents that gave you life. We can’t choose our parents and our parents can’t choose us.

God Reigns above all.

But I've been humbled to my knees when I think about “who saved Lindsey?” 

Well – Jesus did of course.

But what EARTHLY people have saved me?

WOW – I really struggled with that one. I have lots of good answers: MY HUSBAND. MY DAUGHTERS. MY CHURCH. CELEBRATE RECOVERY. MY BROTHER AND SISTER. BEST FRIENDS. Those are all great tools that God uses. But are any of those things constant?

If  heaven forbid my church closed its doors, shut down CR, best friend walks out on me, and my husband and girls die… what will I have left?

God.

And my parents.

I suck at doing relationships with my parents. I really do. So any encouragement would be much appreciated.

There’s also a fine line between honoring your parents and idolizing your parents.

For the purpose of this post, I'm going to assume that your parents are living and that you have at least some sort of contact with them because that could be a whole other post in itself.

I find that for those of us that have had a tragic childhood – honoring your parents comes much harder. And those who have fortunately had a fairy tale childhood fall prey to idolizing their parents. 

God calls us to HONOR them, not IDOLIZE them.

So today, I take a moment to thank my dads. Yes – DADS. TWO of them. Both love me very much and both have screwed up in major ways in regard to my childhood. But God has used it for good because I can now minister to those who have been through something similar.

I also thank my mom – because she carried me and was knitted together in her womb. Without her, we wouldn’t have anything else and because of that... I know that I'm loved. 

I'd like to challenge you to post and/or change your profile pic to the earthly people of this world who have saved you or have make a positive impact on your life. Under God, and Jesus... who has saved you? There's no wrong answer and there's a limitless possibility.

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