"There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight and event or purpose under Heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 Amplified Study Bible
This means God is in control of everything and if we walk with Him, and allow Him, He will help us to perform all that we need to do. Did you get that?
Often, we hear, 'I've got no time to do this, sorry, I'm rushed off my feet,' or 'There's not enough hours in the day, why didn't God create eight days?' The answer to this is, if you had eight days, you would want nine. There is enough time for everything that you have to do. If you disagree, then you need to check out the scriptures.
Life is very busy indeed and some days we are in a turmoil as we try and see how we are going to get through the day. I used to feel this way working in a busy social work office. My work tray would be spilling over with paperwork and orders, the telephone never stopped ringing and I would be due in court on a case I was involved in. But when we hand things over to God, He has a way of freeing us up. Appointments get cancelled, somehow we do the job quicker that we thought was possible. It is amazing how He can take over, if we allow Him; and that is the bottom line.
We have to learn to manage our time better. Not everything is essential that it has to be done today. We have to learn to prioritise. This is not letting anyone down; not at all. It is ensuring that we are free enough to spend time on what we have allocated for the day so that we can do the job well. However, we need to be flexible. Sometimes emergencies or something very important crops up and we have to leave what we are doing and attend to this. If we're too rigid with what we have planned, we'll struggle big time, with having to change the agenda. It's all a case of priority and listening for God's direction.
He is a great planner but we must keep up with Him, he knows best, not us. He is the way, the truth and the life, not us (John 14:6). When we place Him in the driving seat, He will drive very expertly; but when He shows us what to do, we must obey, even though we may not agree and feel we know a better way. Believe me, you don't and you'll mess it up as you try.
Trying to do everything on your own is a recipe for disaster. Stress city comes to mind and when you become stressed, you do things wrong and become irritable with people.
Learn from God's Word, there is a time for everything. You'll find this as you seek God.
Copyriight 2020 Grahame Howard
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave a message