Ever Been Pissed Off At a Lawn Mower?

Ever been pissed off enough to want to chuck something and never want to see it again? Yup. Here’s my story.

It was an overcast and rainy Sunday afternoon. My chore for the week was to mow the yard. Normally, I’d be pumped about mowing but not this time. It rained a few hours earlier. The ground was wet. But the yard needed to get mowed.

As I began to mow I realized how difficult it was gonna be to cut the grass. The backyard was the worst. I had to mow up a mountain. More like a hill but I didn’t care. I was pissed. Frustrated. Fed up. I had to push the lawn mower up the wet, slick hill. It got stuck what seemed like every three minutes. Then the song, “Climb This Mountain” by United Pursuit ran across my mind. Then I thought “Yea, I’m hiking up a mountain and with a lawn mower.” I was ticked off and done. But then these lyrics got to me.

I will climb this mountain with my hands wide open

I knew right then and there it was God who put that song in my head. After I sang the song over and over I began to think about my attitude. Yes, I wasn’t happy but either way the yard needed to get mowed. I can choose to be pissed off and have it suck or see the good in it. I began to speak out.

Thank you God for this lawn mower.

Thank you God for a bed.

Thank you God for giving me air to breathe this very second and every second, minute for however long you continue to provide it.

How often do we get caught up in being negative and speak death over ourselves? Do you realize it or notice it? The words you speak carry a ton of weight and power behind them. Speak life over your own life and over others. Thank God for the things he has blessed you with. You are alive. That in and of itself is a testimony of who God is and what he wants to do in your life.

The enemy will use our words of death and want us to continue to speak those over ourselves and others. Don’t buy into it.

Speak life.

Speak truth.

Listen to the things that God is speaking over you.

Then speak them over yourself.

Believe it.  

Live it.