Social media is a great outlet for connection, caring, and praying for others. However, it can also be a platform on which comparison, anxiousness, and judgments begin to foster.

As we journey through 2019, ladies, if you’re buying into the lie that “you have to be everything,” please stop.

We don’t have to be perfect homemakers and perfect ‘being out doing things’ ladies.  In fact, we cannot be everything.

-Our homes are not going to look like a Pinterest board.

-Our kids aren’t going to be perfect. In fact, they will “embarrass” us many times. We need God’s wisdom.

-Our marriages are not the perfect fairy tales portrayed on Facebook or Instagram.  We need God’s grace.

-Our ministries are not always easy flowing.  We need God’s patience and guidance.
the list goes on…

Some women can balance better than others, but that is not for everyone. God did not create us all the same. We are all gifted differently. So, when we think, “Oh, that lady has it all together!” Well, maybe she does, or maybe not?

When comparisons become something we are consumed in, our joy is stolen, our usefulness is narrowed, and our insecurities are heightened.  Comparison is powerful in such a slow and quiet way.  It often happens subtly, and before we know it, the feeling of inadequacy and lack of “perfection” arises.

We have to remember that we don’t have to do everything!

Our first calling is our homes. But the way we do that is different for each family. Each family dynamic is vastly different, and the way we work in them is also different.  For example, for moms, the way we love our kids vary from each other right? However, the core fundamental belief in Jesus is the same.

The fact that Jesus died for our sins should matter so much to us. It changes everything.  We now have everything we could possibly need! We are not perfect, but God is.  We can rest in His perfection.

Remember that little boy who came to Jesus with five loaves of bread and two fish in Mark 6:30-44? Yes, the food wasn’t enough, BUT, God was enough!  Do we really believe that God is enough?

We are to live fearless in the calling God has for us.

Remember,
1. That we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
2. That we are all gifted differently.
3. The blessings that God has poured out in our own lives, especially when the temptation to compare creeps in.
4. That our identity is in Jesus.

What would it look like if we put our focus on God’s LOVE for us? Jeremiah 17 reminds us that we are blessed when we trust in the LORD. We are to be rooted in God!

How has God equipped YOU?