A Lesson Learned: Busy, Busy, Busy...
We're approaching smack dab in the middle of the busiest fourth dimension of the year. Have I mentioned we have viii birthdays in November between our two families??? And don't forget about Thanksgiving! Christmas will exist here earlier we know it. Which reminds me…I haven't even started making my list!
Every bit my mind has been consumed this week with my "to exercise" list, I was struck past something I read in the book Your God is also Safe by Marking Buchanan.
"Most of our drivenness and anxiousness comes from not really knowing what we MUST do. And so we do a lot of things. We practice them all with grim, fretful haste. Nosotros exercise them with panic but no zeal. We have to, later on all, get THIS matter done and get on to the next thing. Nosotros're not really sure what information technology is we MUST do, and so there'south no time to pause over, to savor, to reverberate on anything…
So what MUST I practise? What is the one thing needed? Forgetting what is behind, we want to say with Paul, and pressing on, 'I take concur of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me' (Phil. 3:12). That is the rally cry of those who live their lives on purpose, across the burden and trivia of mere busyness."
This sounds so much like me…I only keep doing things with no real purpose.
The reckoner tends to be my time-sucker. I can jump on my laptop to check something "really fast" and before I know information technology, I've spent thirty minutes (or more) jumping around from Facebook to Pinterest to my e-postal service to checking my blog stats…then back again. What did I simply attain in those last few minutes???
I can answer that question easily…Nothing.
I'thou not saying there's not a time and a place for reanimation. I definitely think we all demand that from fourth dimension to fourth dimension. And I'm really not self-disciplined enough to outline goals and agree myself accountable to them.
Only I don't want to waste matter my time anymore.
I want to exist intentional with the time God's given me and the tasks He has chosen me to do.
The hard part for me is deciphering why the heck Christ "took hold of me" in the first place. It baffles me, to be quite honest. Near of the time I honestly feel like a failure in about everything I exercise (not parenting well, not thinking of others earlier myself, not being a supportive wife, etc.). What practise I take to offering anyone, anyway?
And similar a book smacking me in the forehead, I realized that in this season of life Christ took concur of me for the sake of our children.
We are to heighten them to love the Lord with all their hearts, minds, and force.
Nothing else matters in the thou scheme of things.
Now, of course, raising them to dearest the Lord means being example of fulfilling the callings that God gave us in Word…similar serving and loving others outside the body of Christ. And taking care of the "least of these".
But my kids won't learn these things unless we teach them.
So that's my continual prayer these days…that God would assistance me to make the well-nigh of the fourth dimension He'due south given me on this Earth. Not with meaningless "busy-ness", but with heart-felt, Godward intention!
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