Thought 216
Faster,
Faster, ‘Cram-it-all-in’
Have
you ever found yourself in the mindset of having to go faster and cram more in?
Sometimes I don’t feel like I am ever going to accomplish this book and then I
sit down, be still, and write and God has helped me to finish five or seven
devotions in an hour! At times, it even feels like my personal ministry is too
much for my schedule; but I have discovered that God never asks us to do more
than we can do–He will make a way. But we do have the responsibility to choose
what we spend our time doing. If we choose to sit and read or play video games
instead of getting done what we need to or don’t set aside a day for the Lord, we will
find ourselves worn out, depressed, discouraged, doubting, tempted, and battling
against the Devil more than we would be if we were living as we should.
We cannot run around in busyness forever;
if we try, we will fail and wither away. Only running the race that God has
ordained us to run will bring peace and joy. Yet, many times the way to go fast
with the Lord is to go slow. As we sit and listen to what the Lord has to say,
whether literally sitting and communing, reading the Scripture and allowing God
to reveal truths to us, or reading great Christian books that encourage us to
live for God, grow, and examine ourselves, sitting before the Lord has to be a
part of our time budget.
You can lay your head down, dear
Christians, without wandering where you will go if you die, but O the horror
for the unbeliever! He does not have that assurance. Christians, if we can lay
down are heads assured of our relationship with Christ, why do we get up and
run around living like we don’t have Christ with us? The Lord has ordained that
we live this way:
LIVE QUIET AND PEACEABLE LIVES (1
Thess. 4:11, 1 Tim. 2:2)
