Choose Life and Embrace the Interruptions, Mama

Tonight we will talk about the choice we get as mamas to choose life in the way we handle life’s interruptions. 

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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 divine interruptions, mama. How much of our lives as mamas we are dealing with interruptions, whether it's from our babies or our families or the phone. We live in a world where interruptions are all around us. I have had times in my motherhood where interruptions were so disconcerting. I was sleeping and the baby was awake and I didn't want to be awake. Or my family needed me to go somewhere and I just wanted to hunker down and stay home. Or I had someone come to the door and I wasn't ready for that. But it's in those beautiful interruptions of our lives that God does some amazing work. I think about some of us mamas that are holding babies right now in our lives and in our hearts and in our arms that were actually divine interruptions. Maybe this was a baby you had prayed for for a long time, and maybe this was a baby that was a complete surprise to you. But either way, it most likely interrupted your life when you found out you were having this little one, and now here you are, and wasn't it a divine appointment and interruption in your life? You see, I always think about in God's word how when Jesus was on his way somewhere, it really wasn't just about where he was going, but it was about who interrupted him along the way, and that was in those moments that Jesus ministered to the hearts of the people, and stories were written about the amazing things that happened in the midst of those beautiful interruptions. And then I was thinking that it's a beautiful work that the Holy Spirit does in our lives when we stop our regular things and focus on the things that are put unexpectedly in front of us. Perhaps this moment that you are sitting in right now in this season of your life or even in the middle of this night is an interruption. Maybe this wasn't your plan. Maybe you'd rather be somewhere else right now or doing something else, like sleeping or resting or just having a minute alone to yourself, but you are tending to the needs of your little one. I can say first of all, good job, mama. I was talking to a beautiful friend this evening, and we were talking about how in this life we get to choose. We can choose to have a good attitude when it comes to serving our families and taking care of the things that God has entrusted to us, or we can be grumbly and crummy, and our view can be skewed about this beautiful life and serving situation we are in. And I thought of this beautiful verse in the Bible in Deuteronomy in chapter thirty and verse nineteen, and it says, I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, that both you and your descendants may live, that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey his voice, and that you may cling to him, for he is your life and the length of your days, and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give them. Why do I share this verse? I share this verse because it's clear here that God puts before us blessing and cursing, life and death, and he even tells us the answer. He says, It's in front of you, life and death, blessing and cursing, choose life. In this moment, mama, when you are dealing with interruptions that are divine, choose life. When you are exhausted and you don't want to do it, choose life. When you can feel the grumbliness coming up inside of you as a mama, you get the choice. You can choose life in that moment. Because who suffers the most when we choose to be grumbly and not view things as a blessing? It's the ones we love the most, isn't it? And it's even us ourselves. So tonight, Mama, I encourage you to choose life in the hard moments, those moments that feel like they're pulling on you and the weight is so heavy. You can choose to have life in that moment. I know that being up at night is exhausting. I also know that it's a lonely place, but I also know that it's beautiful. And it's in those quiet moments that we often hear God's voice speaking to us as mamas, and we can feel the peace of his presence and the beauty of our baby and the preciousness of the opportunity to get to be a mama in this season to our families. I would encourage you when you feel like you are picking up kind of like death, like this is awful and it's killing me, I would encourage you in that moment to speak life, to choose life, and choose to view it differently. This time and this season is God given, and we've talked about it before, but it truly is just a season, and it will pass. But instead of looking back and knowing you were frustrated, I would encourage you in this moment to choose to view this moment as the gift that it is, and that is the Lord is with you. You are not alone, that baby is a treasure from heaven, and you get to be the one in charge of him or her, and it is truly a God-given appointed time for you and your baby. So mama, as I say often, soak up the moments and choose life because you do actually get a choice. And going back to those divine interruptions, I also encourage you to choose life in the interruptions of life because you might just find a real treasure there. Today I had several divine interruptions, and at first it wasn't my plan, but when I followed through with the things that God was putting in front of me, I was the blessed one. Does that ever happen to you, Mama, when you don't want to go somewhere but yet it turns out beautiful? Or you don't necessarily want to stop what you're doing and switch gears, but you're so thankful you did. Tonight, Mama, I encourage you as you go through the next few days, look for those divine interruptions because they are going to come. And know that Jesus Himself dealt with the same thing as us with those wonderful encounters and those divine interruptions. Tonight, Mama, choose life, choose life in your thoughts, choose life in your actions, and choose life in the happiness in your heart and the joy that you get to carry in your home. Until next time, Mamas, I want to leave you with a prayer, a blessing from Numbers 6, 24 through 26. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you, be gracious unto you, and give you peace. Amen. Until next time, mamas, take care.