Try again.

It’s so funny to me how the Lord speaks to me thru the simplist of things.

Israel is currently potty training. He has been going almost all day without any accidents for days. Then all of a sudden he is like regressing and wanting diapers again. This morning he is walking around telling me how he doesn’t want undies.

My response was this,

“It doesn’t matter what you want if what you want isn’t good for you. I know what you need is more important then what you want.”

Then I felt like the Lord stirring on my heart, this is how he feels about us his children. We start to make progress towards maturity then we regress. I started potty training Israel later in age in hopes to avoid the setbacks, but in reality, set backs can’t be avoided, they have to be faced.

Regression happens in the training, but from raising up 3 other sons, I know after regression is momentum.

So if you’re in a regression season right now, trust that momentum is around the corner. Trust that your Father knows what’s GOOD for you even if you don’t think you want it.

Because in the end, you will look back and be thankful that He didn’t give up on you and let you stay in regression but rather, took your hand and says, its time to try again. It doesn’t matter how many times it looks like you failed… try again.

Get up and try again friend.

There is hope in him, even if the process isn’t the way you desire it to be, its best when its HIS process.

There is hope in him, even if its not the outcome you wanted, because His ways are higher then ours. His thoughts are so much greater then ours. Our hope should be IN him not the outcome anyways.