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MY NESTING PLACE
I was reading Psalm 113:9 again, this time in the CEB translation and was arrested by the words: "God NESTS the once barren woman at home--now a joyful mother with children! Praise the Lord!" Before God makes the barren woman a joyful mother, He first nests her in the home. Nesting is part of God's plan for us as women. We are to view our home as our nesting place, the place where we love to be.
The Hebrew word, "yashab" affirms this: it means "to abide, to sit down, dwell, inhabit, settle, continue." Home is not a place to just rest at night, but where we make it our life. And because we make it our nesting place, we are open and ready to embrace children into our nest to nurture and nourish them.
Is this your attitude toward your home? If not, perhaps you have been conditioned by our society and does not understand God's value on the home. Ask God to work in your life, for as this Scripture says, it is God who makes you to nest in your home. It is His working in our lives. It is yielding to His plan.
Love being in your home today. Blessings from Nancy Campbell
