I HAD A MELTDOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MY RUN!!!

But, no shame in my game, I went running to God! I sat down under a tree and vented all my frustrations to Him, like He has been teaching me. He said to tell Him everything, but to others, I should be silent. SUPER HARD FOR YOUR GIRL HERE WHO WANTS TO LOSE IT ALL THE TIME. So, as I’m venting to God how difficult this is for me to do, I’m also helping out our office with a work-related issue. At one point, I needed a code from Microsoft, and look what they sent: 2117545. And like I’ve said so many times before, whenever 11 and 7 appear together, it’s my reminder from God that His invisible Presence is with me. When I’m weak, He is my strength.

But the wink from God didn’t stop there. I had looked up this email from 2 months ago because I disparately needed the reminder earlier that morning:

“GET GOOD AT COVERING THE OFFENSES OF OTHERS!”

This is such great advice I received through Victoria Osteen! In fact, I’m getting GREAT at overlooking, forgiving, ignoring, and staying on the high road with God. It’s like I’m living life with one foot on earth, where the offenses constantly show up, but one foot sweetly in heaven where I rest and enjoy God. I don’t let the irritations, frustrations, and disappointments get the best of me anymore. I wisely use them to push myself even closer to God. And the closer you get to God, the infinitely better your life gets. (HUGE SMILE)”

Fast forward a couple of hours later with me sitting under that tree venting to God, I got a feeling to read our family’s website. It was 4 minutes past the hour, so I went to page 4, and that very post showed up: “GET GOOD AT COVERING THE OFFENSES OF OTHERS!” I just had the biggest smiling session with God! That’s why I have no shame in telling you guys when I’m going through rough times because these are the very times God shows up for me as if asking, ‘Nik, what’s the problem here, my sweetie? You know I’m here with you!’ No way these were just random coincidences, it was God wrapping His arms around me to melt away all my anxieties and frustrations.

Like my brother Kevin has been teaching me, God wants me to be a wise woman. Learning to stay calm, cool, and steady with my eyes fixed on Him in every moment, not doing what the crazy lady in me would do. My other messenger, Chris, sent me these verses today, and it was just the reminder I needed:

“My brothers and sisters, God called you to be free, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do what pleases your sinful self. Serve each other with love. The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” If you go on hurting each other and tearing each other apart, be careful, or you will completely destroy each other. So I tell you: Live by following the Spirit. Then you will not do what your sinful selves want. Our sinful selves want what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit wants what is against our sinful selves. The two are against each other, so you cannot do just what you please. But if the Spirit is leading you, you are not under the law.

The wrong things the sinful self does are clear: being sexually unfaithful, not being pure, taking part in sexual sins, worshiping gods, doing witchcraft, hating, MAKING TROUBLE, being jealous, BEING ANGRY, being selfish, making people angry with each other, causing divisions among people, feeling envy, being drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, and doing other things like these. I warn you now as I warned you before: Those who do these things will not inherit God’s kingdom. But the Spirit produces the fruit of LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL. There is no law that says these things are wrong. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do. We get our new life from the Spirit, so we should follow the Spirit. We must not be proud or make trouble with each other or be jealous of each other.” – Galatians 13-26

So, the WISER Nikki is learning to not go with what is pleasing to my flesh but seeking to make God happy in all my actions. Our reward is with Him who exceeds all our expectations! Wink! Wink!

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