STRESSED IS DESSERTS SPELLED BACKWARDS

Life is much about the way you view it. Life can seem upside down sometimes. The Lord desired that our lives be more DESSERTS than STRESSED; but mankind always tends to even make good things cause stress.

Remembering back on being a very small child in Tennessee. It seemed like it rained once or twice every week. Sometimes the sun would be shinning through the trees and there would be a cloud move over and stop for about 15 minutes and deliver the most wonderful calm shower. The grass was always green and seemed like there were little mud puddles outside our house quite often.

This is just one of the many lovely things about Tennessee and Alabama; the gentle rain that moves across the land, as quick as it appeared; it is gone. No grass burrs to get in your feet. Many people identify people from that land as hillbillies, barefoot and toothless. What a sight. The barefeet I do so relate to. The only way to get comfortable is to run around without shoes. Ah, so relaxing.  If you try that in West Texas there are so many grass burrs that even in your own house you might end up stepping one of those evil things.

I love my memories of Tennessee and Alabama with my family. All mothers can identify with this next paragraph. My mother had six children and a husband that was in every since of the word an outdoors man. Mom sometimes became STRESSED because the second she swept, mopped and waxed the floors, you could mark it down what was going to happen. The door would fly open and Tim would be running for his life. Why would he be running for his life? Because he loved to pick on his sister who happened to be me. All it took was one thing and the chase was on. This chase didn’t end until he was pinned onto the floor by the champion, none other than myself. Probably the reason that I won was because I was 3 years older. In my way of thinking, he started it and I’m going to finish it. Mom didn’t quite understand that concept and us being children, we didn’t stop to ask, “Mom, did you just sweep the floor or mop it”? The chase was on and there were no time to ask questions. Thus leaving my mother “STRESSED” rightfully so. So with her newly swept and mopped floors she didn’t welcome the mud and the extra work.

The same mud that caused my mother to be STRESSED was the mud that caused extreme pleasure and delight to her wonderful precious children. Not everyone saw us through those eyes but I know we were. After all we sang the song, “Jesus Loves the Little Children All the Children of the World, Red, Brown Yellow, Black and White, they are precious in His sight. Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World”. Therefore, each one of her children fit into one of those categories so I know we were precious.

The mud that cause my mother to be STRESSED after a rain caused the three of us to look out the window with pure delight. It was time for Tim, Kay and myself to have an adventure. I know the same thing was true for my older brother and sisters, Melvin, Balinda, and Kathy only they were a bit older and probably past this stage in their life. After the thunder subsided and the rain stopped, barefooted and dishes in hand we set out on an adventure. It was time to make mud pies. We saw mud as DESSERTS.  Never did it cross our mind that mud meant STRESSED until the switch hit our bottoms. To us it was pure delight. We made round mud pies, square mud pies, and double layered mud pies. There was no limit to what we could do with that mud. We often tried to share with our parents but they didn’t seem to think that the pies we make were eatable. Well I’m here to tell you, we thought they were great. We would taste each others pies and we believed that the world was yet to see what great cooks we were. We all see things through different eyes. This is just one example of how that DESSERTS can become STRESSED.

God created everything to be DESSERTS to us but the serpent desires that everything be totally reversed. God created music to glorify the Lord, satan continually gets people to change it to glorify himself and give no glory to the Lord. The average person listens to tons more secular music than he does Christian music.  A lot of secular music promotes things such as, if it feels good do it. Whatever makes your flesh happy, then that is ok. So contrary to what God created us to do. He never created us to worship ourselves but to worship our creator. Our flesh shouldn’t control us, we should control our flesh. So obvious how that the serpent keeps whispering in our ears, “Hath God said this”. Obviously your Father doesn’t want you to have fun. Contrary, your Father knows this life style will cause you to be STRESSED and not to enjoy the Lord’s DESSERTS.

The Lord created our sexual drives and they were to be beautiful between man and woman. Satan has so perverted sex that we have become a totally mixed up society. Many people feel that we have the right to our own bodies. If we want to indulge in pornography or things that would lead us away from our own mate, then more power to us. To God he intended sex between a man and a woman to be DESSERT. Something of GREAT PLEASURE. Although we have more marriages ending because of the lie that satan has whispered in our ears. Satan has so perverted our nation with sexual advertisement and movies that instead of DESSERTS, sex has instead caused people to be STRESSED in their marriage to the point that divorces are taking place way too often.

The Lord created our need for food. I can just see some of the most wonderful ice cream sundaes in my image right now. Honestly ice cream has caused me to be as STRESSED and it has given me delight. One touch to the lips puts one inch on my hips. Ice Cream is like Lay’s potato chips, you can’t eat just one. I’ve tried very hard to eat just one spoonful of Ice Cream. I’m here to tell you that causes me to be even more STRESSED than if I go ahead and eat a bowl full. I can always justify it with, I will face the scales the tomorrow and then run a mile to work the pounds off. Although 5 years ago I injured my back and exercise has been limited to NONE. Therefore, weight loss has been NONE. So now when I have my DESSERTS I truly become STRESSED

Somedays I just want to use God’s telephone number, Jeremiah 33:3 and ask the Lord, “Could you please place us back in the Garden of Eden and allow us to live a life where we don’t become STRESSED. As soon as the thought crosses my mind, I realize that if it wasn’t Adam and Eve that listened to satan and his lies, it would have been me. There is only one way for us to live a life and not be STRESSED and that is to change our way of thinking. I’m with you on this one; that would be like parting the Red Sea. We just do not have the power within ourselves to do that. But we do serve a Saviour who can help us if we will only rely on him to do so.

The Lord created our mouths to speak praise and honor and glory to the Father but instead we spew out crude things, vulgar things, and things that glorify satan more than it does the Father who created our mouths. It’s easier to tame a lion than it is to tame our mouths and out of the abundance of the heart our mouths speak. Are you saying I need to change my heart? No, I’m saying that I need to change my heart! Our heart and soul affects our speech, our feet, our eyes, our hands, our tongue, and our ears. Many times I try to put a bandage on my toe when in reality I am in need of heart surgery. What I need is to ask the Lord to cleanse my heart. When he cleanses my heart and soul, which he promises to do, then immediately my hands, feet, mouth, ears and tongue will be clean. If I only wash my hands the rest of my body will not follow. The only way my body will follow is if for me to stop and clean my heart and soul.

Are you tied of being STRESSED when you should be having DESSERTS? Only you can make the change, nobody can do this for you.

Psalms 51:

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

In other words.
Give me DESSERTS O God and get rid of this feeling of being STRESSED
Don’t withold DESSERTS from me, please don’t take them away.
Give me DESSERTS and I will be happy and free
When I am happy and free I can teach others to have DESSERTS
and lead others to have a life filled with DESSERTS and then they will know you

I know this is a silly way of putting it, but after all isn’t that what this topic is all about? Are we not trying to look at things differently.