Frizzle...Frazzled!

Do you...well I know you do, we all have those days or those moments in our lives where we feel we've been wound up like a top...and that at any moment if God let go, or we let our flesh take over, we would spin out of control crashing into everything and everyone around us within close proximity?!? Well today my friends was my day.
I got a little rattled....and if you know me well nothing much shakes me, I don't really worry about a whole lot, and I kind of like it that way. My theory: If He can't fix it, nobody can..so there's not use worrying. But today all of a sudden I got hit. It felt as though I was so tense that one by one the hairs on my hair were going PING...PING...PING and frizzing out standing on end all over my head! Now I know, we are to cast our cares upon the Lord. I usually do it pretty well. I've always been designed to never over think...just leave it with Him. But today it caught up with me. In these situations we have the power to choose to either try and escape or to seek the Lord. Well, I'll be honest I tried to escape. But as I went to go upstairs, I ran into the baby gate which was blocking the upstairs access....we had our carpets cleaned this morning, which meant no escaping to my room. So as I sauntered to the dishwasher and began to unload, I started thinking YES...a nice hot scalding up to my eyeballs in suds bath! That's just what I need. So I hurriedly finished my task only to realize the tub too was upstairs which was OFF Limits, not to mention the bathrooms were piled high with furniture from the bedrooms (sigh).
Now a little more irritated then before, I instantly thought of opening up a cake mix, you know the double chocolate fudge kind, so I could indulge in the left over batter (all the children were in bed, so I was sure to have as much as I needed..which at this point was enough that there wouldn't have been a cake! (wink wink) Obviously realizing this too was not the answer I was in need of. So I headed over to the living room where I turned on a worship CD and plopped myself down on the sofa with my bible and closed my eyes. Instantly I started relaxing in His presence. What an amazing God we serve....knowing that when we come to Him so overwhelmed He instantly consumes us, and we can feel the cares and pressures of this world rolling off. How you can feel fully clothed in your Fathers presence, you can feel the assurity of who you are in Him, and the peace you feel because you know the promises He's given you. I then rolled myself off the couch and onto the floor and just laid there soaking in His presence, His love and His indescribable peace. As my focus turned from circumstances and situations back to Him, and as I sought out His words and His promises for my situation and my life, I could almost instantly feel His loving arms wrapped around me. His presence puts everything into proper perspective. What an amazing God we serve! Always there attentive to our every need and our every concern. Always there to comfort and love us along the way.
I challenge you this week to shut yourself in with God. Commune with him daily, hourly and moment by moment. When it seems the troubles of this world are coming against you, stop what you are doing and just shut yourself completely in with Him. Seek Him for counsel and direction. Rest and soak in His presence and almost instantly your perspective will be realigned with His, and you will be filled with a peace and an inner joy that only He can fill you with.