Thursday, May 15th, 2025
One prevailing word in my mental and verbal vocabulary lately has been “overwhelmed”. Spring is the season of finishing homeschool, garden prep and planting, chick starting and finally getting to some of those outside projects that have been waiting all winter. As we started a new venture this year with turkeys, it’s safe to say our workload has increased. I keep finding myself thinking and saying, “I feel so overwhelmed.”
The last few times I have been saying it, God has challenged me with this verse in Psalm 61:2:
2 From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
So now, instead of letting my soul and flesh pave a way of weariness and heaviness, I cry out to God in my state of feeling overwhelmed. I ask Him to take me to His rock so that I can see high above all the menial things down here that I am allowing to distort my view of Him and His plans for me. Do I really believe that God can help me with everything from when and where to plant, how to raise chickens and turkeys and which projects to tackle? God isn’t just in the big mountains; He wants to be a part of every task we take on. He created all of these things, and He knows how to care for all of them. He will give us His wisdom if we stop long enough to seek Him for it.
The enemy wants us to run around struggling under our self-imposed weights, depleting us of our strength and joy in the Lord. He wants to bend our gaze inward to the source of wisdom and life that is wavering and faulty at best. He tries to get us to believe that we are competent and capable enough to at least try to stumble our way through this corn maze of life. This is not God’s best for us.
Final Thoughts…
Lord, we want to break free of the constraining mold that the enemy has weaseled around us. We hate being defined by our problems, our weaknesses, our feelings and yes even our successes. We want our only definition to be Jesus. We want our only identity to be Jesus. We want our only care to be Jesus. We want our only hope to be Jesus. We want our every thought to be Jesus. Save us from ourselves and lead us to the higher rock.