I woke up this morning in a really bad mood! For the past two days I have gotten VERY little sleep.  Worse than when you have a newborn baby! No joke! I have been fighting a cold so I know that when you don’t get good rest it can take over.  Thankfully that hasn’t happened! However, I was still in a bad mood.  Just tired and not wanting to face what I knew lie ahead.  Sick coughing kids! AGAIN!  And missing church.  I’m mad that they are coughing again.  Seems like Luke has been HIT hard since before Christmas, with coughs! He does have some allergy issues that he takes medication for some but the cough is so annoying.  To him and the rest of us.  I’m not gonna go into the details of the past two nights.  It just wasn’t great.  With Luke, Gideon and Titus coughing and some wheezing and needing neb treatments.  Also Adam is having some asthma stuff and other “issues” in the night.  So, I woke and told Brian and my Mom that i had NO patience for the day.  I yelled at the kids.  Just plain ‘ol upset …….. I got Luke & Gideon interested in watching Wilderness Family (the rest of it from yesterday) and Titus down for his morning nap.  The rest got to go to church today.  I sat down to do my Bible study.  Feel like I’m behind and trying to catch up before Monday.  As I studied, I sat convicted.  The Holy Spirit has a way of doing that, ya know? 

I read……. “You can do it.  You have the High Priest who also was tempted yet endured.  No matter what comes your way, you and I can live as God would have us live because we have Jesus.  He is our very present help for every situation of life; and because He lives within, He brings with Him the surpassing greatness of His power”.  God totally can help me when I’m weak and feel like I just can’t do anymore! When I feel like snapping at the kids, or getting impatient with them…….. God can stop me in my tracks and I can let Him shine through instead of my ugly flesh! I give over to the flesh so many times and just snap.  Even though I hear and feel the Holy Spirit telling me to do different.  Jesus understood the weakness of the flesh.  Like Him, we must go before the Lord MANY times and keep praying that we not enter into that temptation but allow the spirit to stop us in our tracks.  I want to be faithful to listen carefully to Him and follow His lead.  

I liked this lady’s definition of REST OF FAITH
“Rest is uniting the Word with faith and living in it at that very moment.  It’s the action of faith for today-fo this moment, this situation.  If I wee going to give you a visual of the REST OF FAITH, it would be YOUR HEAD RESTING ON THE BIBLE”