You're Human and That's Okay.

In today's world, we are all plugged in.

To Facebook, to Twitter, to Instagram, Snapchat, etc.

It's easy to post everything good happening in our lives.

I mean, who wants people to know that sometimes our life is hard?

That sometimes we yell at our husband?

That sometimes we snap before one of our kids?

That sometimes we slip on the ice and yell a few colorful words in front of the church deacon?

Nobody.

The world of media has made it easier to cover up our hurts than to share them, even when we are unplugged with people we love.

Even Jesus.

You may have forgotten, but Jesus knows you inside and out:

("For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb."

-Psalm 139:13)

He was right by your side when you cut down your spouse in front of your little one.

He was right by you when you slammed your finger in the car door, lost your job, lost your baby, got served those divorce papers.

Anyone can pretend, but it takes true strength to admit when you're suffering.

When life sucks.

When your marriage is falling apart.

When your job is at a dead end.

When you lay your head down on your pillow each night, sobbing yourself to sleep because you're over your head in debt.

When you don't have it all together.

At a point in my life, I was the greatest actress.

My life was great, my marriage was solid, a smile was always plastered onto my face.

You would have laughed in someone's face if they would have told you I was struggling with major depression, driving to lakes at night to cry and scream where nobody could hear me suffer.

One night, crying myself to sleep because my life was a complete crap hole, Jesus whispered, " I am enough. I am enough. Give it here."

What is 'it'?

Everything.

I didn't wake up the next morning to a different life.

Everything was the same, except someone else was carrying the load that day.

Jesus doesn't care that you're human.

He kind of made you that way.

You don't have to smile when you're unhappy.

You don't have to say you're "fine" when you aren't. 

You don't have to have it all together.

Your dishes aren't always done, your laundry is usually piling by the dryer, your kids are sometimes out of control.

You argue with your spouse.

You snap at your kids when you've had a long day.

You even surprise yourself at your extended vocabulary when you can't find your car keys.

God isn't aimed and ready, lightening bolt in hand, waiting for you to do something human again so He can scold you.

He wants you to be human and to admit it.

He wants you to say "God, today I really sucked at showing my family Your love" and to fall back into His loving arms.

("Come to Me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28)

He wants you to keep trying to walk straight even though He knows you're only a babe, occasionally going off course.

He wants you to trade your burdens for rest.

He wants you to know you will not always be the best husband, the best wife, the best parent, the best co-worker or friend.

You will really suck sometimes.

Being human is what made Mercy necessary.

Run towards Mercy, it's waiting.

(Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.)

Stop working so hard to have everything together.

Stop trying so hard to appear okay when you're not.

You're human and that's okay.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV 

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong."