We get busy. People push us. People crowd us. But let's face facts... we push ourselves too. We crowd ourselves. We make life around us busy to the point where we run low of gas. (Gas = patience, time, love.) We concern ourselves with things out of any semblance of our control.
This past week had been the culmination of a long few months of being on the go. December's hectic Christmas schedule in planning various services at church, trips in January and February, Easter planning in March, and a plethora of other really, really good things. Then last week there were a few things, a few pressure points, which "broke the camels back".
I was running out of gas.
Then God hit me with removing one of the aforementioned pressures. That was Wednesday. Uh. Thanks, God. One less thing. Then on Thursday he surprised me greatly with a huge answer to another pressure point. Okay, God. Wow. Maybe you know what you're doing. Then Friday came. One more pressure point eased. Actually eased twice in the same day. I distinctly had the impression of God saying... "You of little faith. I love you. Just trust me." (Matthew 8:26)
Yeah. Easy in the saying. Hard in the doing.
But being open to his gentle nudging and reminders, my bad week ending really well.
In my fatigue, rather than resting, I pushed on and began hold to tightly to controlling what was happening around me. To look at situations in life as "out of control". At least... out of my control. But I needed to remember that it's not in my control. God's in control. Jesus is in control.
In Jesus everything was made... everything in heaven and on the earth. He came before all things. He is before all things. He holds all things together. (Colossians 1:16-17) I can trust the guy who stops storms, walks on water, created the storms and the water in the first place, and holds it all together. Maybe he can hold me together too.
And he does. I still need to trust him in the midst of the busyness. I still need to obey him in the midst of the fatigue. That's when bad weeks become good weeks.
worship Him 24/7...
scott
Here's a modern twist on the old favorite Trust & Obey by Big Daddy Weave.
When we walk with the Lord
In the light of His word
What a glory He sheds on our way
While we do His good will
He abides with us still
And with all who will trust and obey
Trust and obey
For there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus
But to trust and obey
But we never can prove
The delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay
For the favor He shows
For the joy He bestows
Are for them who will trust and obey
Lord, I love You
Please help me to trust and obey
Lord, I love You
Please help me to trust and obey
Then in fellowship sweet
We will sit at His feet
Or we'll walk by His side in the way
What He says we will do
Where He sends we will go
Never fear, only trust and obey