***Originally published on April 23, 2008****
This raccoon spoke volumes to me when we came across it’s cage during a recent visit to the zoo.
As I watch this lil critter sleeping, I was reminded that God never gives us more than we can ever really handle; He gives us enough but then He does want to bless us by pulling back to and taking some time not only for ourselves but to spend time with Him.
So often we tend to feel incomplete if our schedules aren’t filled from Monday to Saturday and find ourselves often stopping and wondering where are we in the midst of the whirlwind and it’s usually then that God goes…Rest. Just rest and listen.
The greatest worship we show to God, isn’t often how much time we can spend…in a sense we may unintentional be either wasting time, or avoiding time with Him, but in how we prioritize.
I learned that recently as faced with new experiences and obligations with church, on top of balancing duties at home that I realized that the seesaw was not really balancing as well as it should be and on one end I was putting more than really needed to be and the other was losing.
I praised God that He was using that time to show me that He was calling to us a wonderful experience but at the same time…pulling on the brakes and going whoa whoa whoa….doing great, just don’t get to ahead of yourself.
Like the raccoon…We were reminded that sometimes there is too much of a good thing.
I was shocked when I looked at our calendar and it went from each weekend, nothing really happening to something happen every weekend and on top of that spilling into the week, and during the day I was balancing doing this and that…
What was awesome was that on one hand, God gave me a great taste of what I could do and never thought I could and on the other, I could feel Him leading me to rest….rest like the raccoon and it’s not all that bad sometimes…Lol.
In the whole process what really amazed me as I’m swinging on the couch like that raccoon was in his or her little bed…that even at the end of a busy day….a lil rest time isn’t a bad time.
God has big plans and wants us to be at our most alert and fittest, but part of that is learning our limitations and learning to just …..rest.
I feel Him holding me back some right now and I feel Him going…Hey let’s talk a little bit..Hang back….Time to slow down a little…Got some big things coming up and need to get you ready for it.
Thank You Lord for knowing me better than I know myself and Thank You Lord for always finding ways to humble me and reminding me that I’m not ready to climb this mountain or that. I’m still training and I need to rest those muscles as much as I need to work them.
(Jeremiah 29:11-13 NKJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. {12} Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. {13} And you will seek
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too much of something makes my butt sore hahaha.. j/king! thanks for the encouragment ! hugs
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Amen! Great reminder about the right balance….
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