PROCESSING
Today's reading: Numbers 22:21-23:30, Luke 1:26-56, Psalm 57

"Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean." Luke 1:29 NLT

I'm not sure how you process events, circumstances, happenings or dilemnas, but here is what I do..

I think too much.

I try to figure it all out.

I attempt to understand it completely.

I allow it to completely overwhelm me at times.

And in writing all that, I notice the problematic denominator in all of it...I.

I have never been gifted with the wisdom that allows me to figure it all out, the foresight to understand it completely or been given a life that was ever intended by my Creator to be overwhelming.

Mary, the mother of our Savior, was flabbergasted by the news the angel brought to her. She, for a short time, had a tough time processing it. She tried to think of ALL the angel could possibly mean.

But then God allowed her to move from confusion and doubt to submission and willingness.

"Mary responded, I am the Lord's servant, and I am willing to accept whatever he wants. May everything you have said come true. And then the angel left." Luke 1:38 NLT

I want to live in a 'Mary mindset'. I desire to have a heart that so fully trusts what God allows to come into my life that I don't think, I let Him do the thinking for me.

I desire a submissive and willing heart that accepts all things given in my life with belief, not in my abilities to handle it all, but in His love for having given it to me.

I want to accept whatever He wants for my life.

I want to see everything as having been filtered through Him before it ever reaches me.