It’s Tuesday again y’all!
If you follow me on Instagram, you know husband and I started November with a challenge for ourselves and our marriage.
We are not watching any television or spending any extra money.
Here’s the deal we love t.v. and I love to spend money on Starbucks and hubby likes to spend money on various things on ebay- but none of these are necessary for us to live a full life.
We need Jesus, we need our marriage, we need our partnership, and our romance. We need things that matter beyond materialistic things or what the world says we should treasure.
A question was presented to us at BSF a couple weeks ago- If someone followed us around for a day, what would they say our treasure is?
Now I don’t know about you, but there have been many of day where all I could focus on was to get home, kick off my shoes and “relax” in front of the tv filling my time with mindless junk that doesn’t benefit me in any way. My treasure now shouldn’t be anything that I wouldn’t still cherish when I am 80.
It should be being a vessel for the Lord, sharing Him with others and witnessing with simple acts of kindness and patience because I just may be the only Jesus someone ever sees.
It should be cherishing the man God created for me, cultivating our amazing marriage where we strive to out serve each other. It should be spending time in The Word together, talking about how we want to raise our future children. Connecting on a deeper level than could ever be achieved by “spending time together” watching tv.
All of these things, the things that WILL matter when I am 80, the things that matter to others even if I never know it are what I want to be the foundation of my life. I want it to be stronger than ever so no matter how big the hurricane/earthquake/tornado (read: no matter what mess the enemy tries to bring in my life) nothing will shake the foundation of our life because it is God centered and full of faith.
So, November is a month to step back and focus and create new habits so that if someone were to ever follow me around they would say I treasure my relationship with my Savior, I treasure His grace that I do not deserve, I treasure my marriage and my husband, and I treasure that I already have everything I need because the good Lord always provides.
xoxo, Tamara
We went a yr no internet n cable. Was nice !! Now we have it n realise there was nothing we missed.
Goodluck!!