Humble over Hustle
How many of us feel the need to constantly hustle? I feel like I'm going from one place to the next forever staying busy and never slowing down. I say yes to too many things and want to be involved in everything. I want to be in control and I often get a bad case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) if I say no. Recently, God has been dealing with me about slowing down and humbling myself. Because when I hustle and do all the things I'm working so hard to do, I'm allowing myself to replace God because I want control. Yikes! However, rather than constantly hustling I've come to realize I have to humble myself and let God do the heavy lifting. We have to make sure we know our place and God's place in the scenario to find the thin humble over hustle line.
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When the storms are rolling in
Have you ever been through a season where one minute everything was sunny and the next the storms started rolling in? I recently went through a season like that and it took me a while to find that sunny place again. It seemed like one minute God had just opened the doors wide open to so many promises and dreams where I felt like I was on top of a mountain. Then suddenly things took a turn and I was down in a valley.
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I once was lost
Last night one of my favorite song's came on my Pandora radio station, Broken Vessels by Hillsong Worship. As I listened to the words, I began to thank God for saving me from my life before I knew him. I began to recall what I had been saved from and brought through. The lyrics deeply moved me and then I remembered seeing a verse, 1 Peter 2:9, over the weekend on a girl's t-shirt and the next morning in a daily devotional. I felt compelled to write this vulnerable (and long) story about how I came to know Jesus in hopes that it helps someone today.
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Social Media Syndrome
We live in a culture now where social media tends to feel just as real as our normal in-person interactions. It's almost more important how our lives appear online to others and what our virtual friends "like" rather than what our face-to-face friends think. Trust me I've been there. I've scanned through my Instagram feed losing hours of my time to ponder other people's lives. I've compared mine to their's, wishing I were cooler or more hip or more put together. I would write out and reassess as I wrote a caption to perfectly depict the "natural looking" (totally planned and posed) photo I was about to post. Then I would hold my breathe as I waited to see how many likes it got, all while hoping that certain person would see it and like it (you know what I'm talking about). How silly right? But I know I'm not alone in this social media game we all play.
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