And he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern. (Matthew 6:33)
Life has slowly being going back to normal…as normal as can be and I’ve found myself, blissfully caught up with homeschooling while making calls in between for necessary repairs, follow-ups to see how those I can reach are doing and seeing what else there was, me and my family, could do for others.
Internet and phone is working more smoothly these days and it’s a late evening for the family and I, that I let myself check my emails and see how far I’ve gone behind with everyone and the world beyond.
As I was checking my email, my eyes fell on the following devotional that I receive daily. The devotional went:
A man was out driving in the country during a heavy rainstorm when he came across an old farmer who was surveying the ruins of his barn. He pulled over and to ask the farmer what happened.
“Roof fell in,” the farmer replied.
“What happened with it? Why did it fall in?” asked the stranger.
“It leaked so long, it just finally rotted through,” the farmer said.
“Why in the world didn’t you fix it before it rotted through?”
“Well, sir,” said the farmer, “I just never did seem to get around to it. When the weather was good, there wasn’t a need for it. And when it rained, it was just too wet to work on.”
Isn’t it amazing that when you want to do something, you find the time, no matter how busy you are? But when someone asks you to do something you don’t want to do, suddenly there is just no room in the schedule.
This can happen when it comes to the Christian life as well. If we are serving God only when it’s convenient, then we are settling for second-best. If we only make time for the things of God when something better doesn’t come along first, then we are missing out on what God wants to do in our lives.
How much better it is to make time for the things of God–to put the things of God above everything else. How much better it is to get your priorities right.
Instead of making excuses, make time for the Lord. It is not only the simple way to live, but also the best way.
Copyright © 2008 by Harvest Ministries. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
My jaw dropped, my heart felled and it sounded like God talking to me.
We hadn’t attended church since really getting the biopsy reports and had planned on returning after recovering from the surgery, then the hurricane happened and we didn’t make it that Sunday back.
Lazy perhaps? Tired? Or just feeling out of joint so to speak.
Instead of just letting life happen, we let life happen to us and in the process, though we never truly left God, we didn’t take the time to really spend time with Him either.
It seemed we allowed ourselves to get caught up with everything and then….drifted like a boat that forget to completely drop anchor in a good secure spot and now was dragging. We were near harbor but not in a safe position either.
My biggest and most honest fear was stopping;Stopping and then facing the wave of emotions that we felt after everything that had happen.
My husband and I really haven’t talked about him riding the storm out or just our honest emotions in the days afterwards and in the meantime, when we did talk, it was to express how we just didn’t feel as anchored as we would like to be.
We all feel that don’t we, in some points in our lives. Like we are not really anchored near shore but just slowly drifting along the river bed not really in danger of drifting away but no close to shore like we really were before.
It’s a matter of tiny steps going back. Letting the emotions just go through and not rushing to fast but trying not to rush to slow either.
I’m getting there..back to where I was and at the same reconciling it’s okay too.The hardest part is letting myself feel like it’s okay and things are safe again and it’s okay…it’s okay…all the time remembering…God is and was and will always be in control.
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