His Promise...

So I left the house this morning with this deep feeling that I wasn't contributing enough. Feeling that since I wasn't bringing in money, I was not holding up my end in this family. I found myself wishing and plotting some way that I could bring in income so that I could help my husband and lighten his load. Feelings of inadequacy, that I'm not enough and I need to be bringing in money to have worth. This feeling comes often and usually with a panic of "what if's". What if we could be getting the kids into more, what if we run out of what we need, where would we go, what would we do.....
     Then this morning I came across Hebrews 13:5
   
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (NIV)

As much as I always seem to need those last words "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" I had to remind myself of the first part and realize how much I was attacked by the enemy this morning. Money is not my self worth. I am grateful and happy with what we have.

Oh, man, and just now when I tried to find the perfect picture to go along with this....I read the next verse!! I felt these words without even reading them. Thanks Abba.

        So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"    
                      Hebrews 13:6 (NIV)

I am enough and I do not stand alone.