Do you have certain things that just annoy you no matter how great your day is going? Well, I do. My current battle is the snow in our outside roof vents that's melting and causing issues in our vaulted ceiling. Totally annoying. I'm having a great day, come home and see the tell-tale bubble in the sheet rock and I'm instantly annoyed. Oh, there is a fix to this, I know, but no one gets to the fixing in a time frame that is to my liking. ;-) And I know it's a ridiculously small problem, but it's causing me major annoyance. Silly, isn't it? But I know we all have things like this. Here's my learning. After years of these little types of annoyances (sometimes they're larger) that pop up in my daily life, I have learned to turn them over to God as soon as I recognize them. These are a tool of the enemy to distract me and cause me to take my sight off of Jesus. The annoyance leads to worry which steals my attention causing me to put my energy into worry instead of into faith. It doesn't mean that I am instantly over being annoyed when I turn it over to God, it's a process. These little annoyances are a way for Satan to get a small foothold, and no annoyance is important enough to allow that to happen. Don't lose sight of the One who actually has control over it all anyway. No worries. Our ceiling will dry and we'll get the filters in the vents sooner rather than later. :-)
Psalm 123:1 I lift up my eyes to you, to you whose throne is in heaven.
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