“Savor it with Me”
I woke up while it was still dark out, loaded up the car with our luggage, tons of snacks, a sleepy baby and headed out to DC to meet my husband out there.
Driving down the highway I got to watch the sky’s brushstrokes go from a starry indigo to a fiery blood orange sun emerging from the horizon.
The colors were so captivating and just as I was reaching for my phone to take a picture of this sunrise I’d never seen before,
I heard the Holy Spirit say
“Savor it with Me”.
I paused and thought, “okay.” So I kept driving and enjoyed the moment with the Lord.
A few weeks before this I was sitting on my couch at home and I suddenly heard the Holy Spirit say,
“You have felt captive to motherhood rather than crowned by it.”
It was so disruptive, I didn’t know how to move forward with that.
I lingered in that statement for weeks pondering what it meant and how I could change it.
Fast forward to me getting back home from DC,
I was folding laundry and I said,“Okay Lord, how do I stop being captive in motherhood?”
And I so clearly heard again, “Savor it with Me.”
I paused.
And suddenly it started to make sense.
I looked up the official definition of “savor” and here’s what it says:
To taste and enjoy completely.
To taste or smell with pleasure
To delight in
Then He brought me to Psalm 34:8
“Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!”
How would I treat my child if Jesus was here with me in the flesh watching me try to change his diaper as he fights me?
How would I respond to having to wipe his tears again after an exhausting day of teething if Jesus Himself was sitting on my couch watching?
How would I view my son’s strong will that already so stubbornly tries my patience if I knew the Person of Jesus was here in my kitchen with us?
We don’t treat our children well out of unholy fear of God and we don’t fake how we feel either.
So how can we truly savor motherhood?
The second half of that verse has the answer.
Jesus is in Heaven at the right hand of the Father but we have the Holy Spirit living in us.
God is always with us.
Not monitoring us and waiting for us to mess up so He can punish us.
No, rather He extends an invitation.
To let Him be our refuge.
It is our protection to view motherhood as something to be savored with the Lord.
It is for our own benefit to remember that we aren’t doing this alone. But God Himself is near.
Where I viewed myself as captive because of all the things I have to do and all the things I can’t do right now in this season of motherhood,
I have the freedom to choose to view them as what I get to do all while accompanied by the Lord Himself.
Taking refuge in the Lord while walking through the harder aspects of motherhood,
Means I come under His protection, His grace, His love and His mercy in spite of them.
We can trade captivity for crowning if we will just taste and see.
“Taste, and you will see that the Lord is good! How happy are those who trust in his protection!”
Psalms 34:8 FBV
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