Our world is so busy. In our culture we are constantly consumed with activity all around us. We are professional multi-taskers. On any given day you can walk into a coffee shop to find people writing their essays on their computer while they Google information, get an update from Facebook on their phone and make a phone call an instant later. All the while they are sitting in a room full of people.
Now I am not saying technology is a bad thing, but when did we stop looking at what is in front of us? When did I stop looking at what was in front of me?
Today I was greatly humbled by a donation I received from a friend. One who I see weekly and could have handed me her donation, but instead just quietly offered what she had to give. Simple moments can make the biggest changes in our lives. In that moment, the moment I saw her blessing to me on the screen, I remembered how small I was. How I have been putting so many small things and busyness front of my yearning heart. I didn’t see my potential, but she saw me. God reminded me who I was. His.
It is so easy to mask the difficult with the easy. Reading a book is much simpler then writing a blog, though nothing about reading is evil. Laying in the sun is easier then working in it, listening to other musicians is easier then practicing, but the reward for the effort always outweighs the work put in. What can beat the feeling of a finished project or the notes of a newly made sonnet?
I know this, but I fall so easily into the habit of easiness. I believe the bible labels it as “sloth”. Haha so basically I am a big ol slow moving rodent. I am capable of much but doing little. Sooo I totally just made my own interpretation of that. I don’t think a sloth is even related to a rodent nor is it the definition of the word used in the bible, but I believe you get my point.
So I asked the question…”God who are You for me in this?” And you know what he said? You are mine. God likes to do that. Answer my questions with something I need instead of what I asked. He knows me too well, lol.
“I am His and He is mine”. So “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” I am not a sloth, or a procrastinator or a bad person. Things the devil tried to tell me when I saw my blessing. He said “you don’t deserve it look at you”, but one second with God and I am “made perfect in my weakness”. It is amazing.
So this blog is kind of everywhere but I wanted to share what God is teaching me. Here are the main points/questions God is answering for me.
- What busyness in my life do I need to remove?
- I need to get busy with Him
- I am His
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