Soul Care - Leaning on the Promises of God for Moms

The only way you can be a loving mother, wife, or friend is to have your soul filled with the deep, unchanging, unconditional love of God.

So, how do you fill and enrich your soul?

1. Be careful what you read! Surround yourself with books, blogs, and magazines that feed your mind on truth and encourage you to become a better self. There are so many wonderful devotionals and autobiographies and classic fiction books that are encouraging and truthful, in contrast to others that stir feelings of insecurity or greed or even impurity. Choose well.
2. Spend time in nature—His workshop. When I see the artistry of God and rest in the glory of the canopy of His beauty, I find great peace. Creation was made for us. When I invest time in His works of art, I am inspired to reflect His art and beauty in my home as a picture of His reality in an otherwise dark world. Creation nurtures my soul when I take time to observe it.
3. Restore, relax, recreate. Moms need sleep! Sometimes grumpiness or depression goes away with just a couple good nights of sleep or time away with a friend. Moms need to have a friend who understands them and still loves them! They need to laugh and lighten up. Cultivate times of breaks in your life, times of just getting away. Don’t always be serious—it is exhausting.

His Promises

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.

We will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.

So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.