Daily Devotional @ SHE

 

    I got up this morning and was asked if I could share with the girls in their daily devotional time. Another girl was suppose to get up and share but wasn’t able to and asked if I had anything to share. Because I wasn’t prepared I had to think… I said, “don’t we all have something to share?” If it’s about God, I should hope so I thought to myself.

Doesn’t mean we always want to share, talk, or open up. But when it’s about God and His goodness and the things He is to me and has done for me… How can I not share. Still didn’t mean I knew what I was going to say and had maybe 5 min for my brain to process.

Downstairs there were about 12 girls in a circle waiting for me to say something, which was then translated. I have been reading a bit from Sharon’s (one of the founders of SHE) book Promises for Life for Women. I thought I might talk about patience and how far God has taken me with that. But instead I turned to an area that talked about Busyness.

God has definitely taught me and continues to teach me about busyness. Especially since I am a multi-tasker-go-go-doer (techincal term).  The scripture was…

I just realized it does have ‘patience’ in there. But it wasn’t what I focused on in the sharing. Anyway. What I talked about was how I used to be so busy. Too busy! God was not the focus of my life or even parts of my day. I told them I used to have 4 jobs and work 7 days a week. Sure I had some money and nice things but I didn’t have God. Didn’t have God the way that God wanted to have me, that is.

That all slowed down when the 4 jobs were no longer and I was left with myself. Sick of myself I was, I turned to God. Cried out to Him for help. He took me on the World Race to spend a year with Him. Granted there still are times that I can busy myself too much out here as well.

Not only does it have to do with jobs, tasks, people, entertainment, food, but our thoughts. Busying myself with too many thoughts of things and not Him.
Just to BE with Him. I really start to feel it and it’s not good.

I asked them if they ever felt this way. That our day gets away from us and we end up wondering where was God in it. (He’s always there) But did we invite Him in our day? I used the visual of my hand (I thought this was neat, so on-the-spot) I opened my hand and counted with my fingers all the things I had to do. Like if you were to number off, 1. go to the store, 2. do laundry, 3. pay bills and so on. All the types of things that consume our day. I closed my fist tight and said this is our day. Packed with things to do. Then with my other hands finger I poked into the tight spaces between my clenched hand. “Our day”, I said, “we need to inject God into our day”. As I poked my finger in each crease, I saw them nodding their heads. Oh, the power of visuals, when you don’t speak their language.

It’s was a good sharing time. I have never shared or lead a devotional type thing like that. I think I might do it tomorrow morning too. Not sure what God will have me share about. Hopefully it will be something one of all of the girls need to hear specifically or maybe even me. We’ll see.

Well… that’s about it. I just wanted to share with you my morning and how much I enjoyed this experience.  God is so good, faithful and patient with us. Loving us even we are too busy for Him. Waiting for us to realize how much we really need Him.

Do not fret- it leads to evil.”(Psalm 37:7-8)

In Jesus Name, Amen.