Such a time as this

Hey Mama’s with little ones this is just a little encouragement for you!

So recently I was asked a question about something that happened during a service and I responded “sorry I was out with baby at the time”. The response I received was why what’s the point of going to church if you don’t sit for the sermon. To be honest I was taken aback and a little hurt. I thought I was doing the right thing by taking my kids to church but leaving the sermon so that I didn’t disturb others.

That week I cried in my prayer time asking God if i should just stay home and is there really no sense in me going to church. I didn’t feel anything so I continued to pray.

Sometime later in the week while worshiping with my little one at home I felt the Holy Spirit say “I have called you for such a time as this”. I felt overwhelmed with a sense of God being please with what I was doing for my kids. I may not always be able to sit in and listen to the sermon on a Sunday, I might need to walk out with a screaming baby on occasion but you know what, I’m doing what God has called me to do, raising up the next generation in the ways of the Lord. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Children follow the example we set for them. So if it means I will be taking my kids to Church and sitting outside with my little until she is ready for Sunday School then so be it.

God is still moving and working in my life because he has placed me in such a time as this, such a time to raise my kids in his ways so that one day they might fulfill the plans he has for them.

God will find me where I am, because sometimes when you have little kids there is no such thing as a silent prayer or quiet time, sometimes he finds you in the chaos.