Just do as she says...

Jessica was trying very hard to get Fall pictures of the children. Have you ever tried to get three children under five years of age to stay in one place much less smile at the same time? To say the least, everyone was getting stressed. The more she tried to instruct them, the less cooperation she would get.

Feeling a little desperate himself, Mason (the oldest) tells his younger siblings..."Just do as she says and we can get out of here!".

How often do we find ourselves in desperate situations or the trying times of life with the Holy Spirit trying to give us instructions...and if we would just do as He says...we could get out of here.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Proverbs 8:33

I'm washin' my hands

One day while driving down the road, Jessica hears her 2 year old daughter, Kennedy, saying..."I'm washin' my hands Momma, I'm washin' my hands". Thinking that she had found a napkin within reach of her carseat, she calls back her encouragement, "That's great Kennedy!" Kennedy proceeds to not only wash her hands, but also her face, her feet, and everything else. "I'm washin my feet Momma, I'm washin' my feet!"

Little did she know, that all the while Kennedy was "washin' her hands" she was actually licking them. She was also using those licked hands to wash her face, and her feet. Licking and relicking...

It made me think of how many times I thought I was cleaning things in my life when in all actually I was making the situation worse. Instead of turning the problem over to my heavenly Father to wash and santify...I was busy "washin'" it myself.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Proverbs 16:2