Finding Your Balance, Mama. (Rest. Serve. Refill with God’s Help.)

Tonight we will talk about finding the balance between resting and serving our families. We will talk about how God is there to help us with this beautiful balancing act. 

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Good evening, mamas, and welcome back to Midlight, your light in the middle of the night. Tonight I want to talk to you about times when we need help. And I know that as mamas, help can come in all forms of things that we need. Sometimes we need help for the moment. Sometimes we need help with physical things. Sometimes we need help to understand how to do all these mom things. But the Lord tells us in his word something so beautiful. It says in Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 16, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. This is a beautiful reminder to us, mamas, that God is there to help in any time of need that we have. And as mamas, sometimes that comes in the middle of the night when we feel utterly exhausted. Other times we find that we need grace to help in times with our children when they are frustrated and we don't know what to do for them. Our hearts are there to help, but sometimes we just need the Lord to give us that help. And I love how it says, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. I think the thing that encourages me the most when it says this word boldly is that we do not have to come timidly to God. We can come to Him honestly and with boldness and say, God, I do not know what to do. God, would you please meet me in this place and help me with fill in the blank? Maybe it's emotions, maybe it's a mental space, maybe it is fears that you don't know how to handle because they feel enormous. Maybe it is just the stress of being a new mama and also having other hats to wear, such as a wife or a significant other, or a daughter, or a sister. But now you have this new hat called mama, and it's a lot and it's beautiful, and sometimes there isn't that help in the middle of the night in form of a person, but there is help in the form of God, and He is the one who will never let us down and never fail us, so we can rest assured that the Lord will meet us in any moment of our day, but especially in the night hours as a mama, because he understands what we are going through. In fact, in Hebrews chapter 4, if you go up just one verse above the one we talked about just now in verse 16, and you go up to verse 15, it says this for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. I love that. That shows us that God Himself has walked through this, that Jesus was here and he was tempted like we are, and he is not just someone who doesn't understand. He does understand, Mama. In fact, there's a beautiful place in Scripture in Isaiah chapter forty one and verse thirteen, where God says, For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, fear not, I will help you. Why do I share this with you tonight, Mama? I share this with you tonight because I find that as mammas we try to do everything on our own, and we try to not need help, and we think that that makes us stronger. But the truth is our strength comes from the Lord, Mama, and He is there and an ever present help in the times that we need it, and it is perfectly wonderful to call upon the Lord when you are in a place when you need help. I also think that as Mamas, it's important to know when we have reached a limit and we need to rest. Sometimes, mamas, we just get so busy tending to everything that needs done that we will talk ourselves right out of a rest. But the Lord wants us to have physical rest too, especially us mamas, as we are tending to these sweet children. I want to encourage you, Mama, to balance your life between serving your families and taking a rest when you need it. Set up your life so that you can take rest. One thing I have come to understand in my life as a mama is if I can simplify the things around me, whether that's physical items or the things on my schedule, it makes me feel freer as a mama, and it makes me allow time to do other things such as pour into my babies or rest. So mama tonight I want to encourage you to listen to yourself and your body, and if you find that you need rest and you're struggling between do I do this or do I rest? If you need to rest, God will stretch your time. So set up your life in such a way that you're planned ahead. Plan your dinner in the morning or the night before. It's amazing what it will do for your evening. Plan one load of laundry, just one. Get it all the way done from beginning to end. Do what you can that is manageable. You cannot maybe do it all, but you can do a doable work so that one more thing is done without overloading yourself. This is a practical way to help. I hope that helps you tonight, mama. I will be praying for you, mamas, that you find your balance between doing what you can, taking a rest, and bite-sized doable pieces of serving your family through the work that needs done for meals, laundry, cleanups, and baby snuggles. It's a beautiful balance and what a gorgeous work you get to do right now in this season of your life. I do encourage you, mamas, to spend time resting, prepping, playing with your babies, and planning the next meal. It will be a help to you. One thing I did when my babies were small was I paired down their clothes to five outfits a week and two jamas, and I said, This is what we're going to work with, like we're on vacation. And you know what, mamas, I kinda never went back because having less laundry to do was kind of glorious. So that would be a practical help for tonight. Mamas, I so enjoy spending time with you. I am here and I am praying for you tonight. I would like to leave you with a blessing now from number six, twenty four through twenty six. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face to shine upon you, be gracious unto you and give you peace. Amen. Until next time, Mama, continue to work on the beautiful balance between rest and serving, and take care.