October is gone

This month has flown by, and I never had a chance to write a new devotional, so I decided post the devotional I wrote last October. It was a good one for me to go back and read anyway.

From October 2007:

It will surprise nobody, least of all my family, that I have flaws. Recently, while my husband was out of town, my precious children got to experience some of the flaws of their tired, stressed-out mom. Why is it that we often behave the worst towards the ones we love the most?
During humbling times like that, when I have to apologize to small children for my own immature behavior, I wonder if God still wants to use me? I wonder what worth I am to Him?
In her Bible Study Living Your Life as a Beautiful Offering, Angela Thomas writes, “If only the flawless can use their gifts, then no one can.”
The reality is that God wants to use us, with all our flaws and our weaknesses, to bring glory to Him. 1 Corinthians 1:27 tells us that God “has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” And in 2 Corinthians 12:9, God tells Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
God knows that we have flaws and weaknesses. But He still wants us to move forward in our walk with Him, to use our gifts for His service. Like Paul, we can be “confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.”