He is for You

Thursday, November 10

He Is For You
By: Lori Ennis

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

I don’t know about you, but it seems like when I fail, I’m failing the most important people in the world. 

My family.

I always put so much effort toward being a rockstar friend, employee, coworker and all-around good human, and most days, I think I do a decent job of it.

But mom-ing and wife-ing it…whew. 
Let me tell you how the devil taunts my failures on the regular.

I recently saw a video of my son when he was about three. He was crying and crying (and ever the good mom, I was filming it) because he couldn’t eat a marshmallow since he’d swatted at me. Ah, the problems of toddlers!

At the time, my husband and I sort of laughed as we filmed because frankly, we’d been fed up with his threenager-ness, and weren’t melting for the tears because he’d been ugly to me and didn’t need the marshmallow anyway. He’s usually a great kid and we were sort of filming for posterity.

As I watched, though…I wanted to scoop that baby up and bury him in my mercy. I wanted to give him ALL the marshmallows in the whole world because hindsight gives us the gift of realizing how not to sweat the small stuff. I beat myself up for being such a harsh mom (and filming it, no less).

The thing is, though, I often feel like a failure mom and wife.  I often beat myself up because I know the world gets the best of me and my family gets the rest of me. Every day I try to be better about that, and many days, I still feel like I lost big time.

And so, at the end of every day, I am so, so thankful for these words: He is for me.
Our Creator is FOR US. 
We may fail, yes, but HE IS FOR US.

And His mercies are new every day.

I fail at being the wife and mom I want to be often, but He reminds me with those simple words that if I just keep bringing my failures to Him and praying for Him to be strong in my weakness, He is FOR ME. He is for YOU.

And if He’s for us, failure is just an opportunity to lean into Him and let Him be God.