Wow! Is it really March 2nd? It feels like just yesterday I was preparing for our New Year's Domino Challenge with our friends. What an awesome morning. It rings so true today when I read: This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it! [Psalm 118:24]
I woke up very early in the morning again. I went off into my "study place" and proceeded to get my devotion book. Instead, I opened my Bible to 1 Timothy. I am teaching this weekend and wanted to review the material. I am amazed at the power of Christ. When I got up from that place, I truly felt like I had met with God. Can't explain it except that the Holy Spirit does not disappoint. Whew.
I had been thinking about this blog and wanted to blog on a scripture God showed me last week. I don't need to tell anyone about the pressures of life or how everwhelmed our schedules are. It feels like I leave at six in the morning only to return home at 7 or 8 each day. Everything that has to be done has to be done by then because often I have been up until midnight grading papers.
I am an eight o'clocker! I am in bed by 8 or so but not these last few weeks. I thought to myself "how in the world am I going to do all this?" There are responsibilities and commitments everywhere. God revealed this verse to me in Psalms 18:28-29 and it reminded me of a time many years ago.
When I first decided that I wanted to join the police department, my sister jumped on the bandwagon. She wanted to do it also. It was great! We decided we would attempt the physical agility test together. There was only one problem....the tall wall! It was not a wall we were going to scale easily. I am only 5'4 and she is much shorter than me. We would run, gain speed and plant our foot in the center but the best we could do is grab the top of the wall.
My dad went as far as to build a makeshift wall between two trees in our back yard. We tried for days. Over and over we ran to the wall and "hit a wall" in the process. I would not be broken...I was going to do it one way or another. My sister decided this was not for her so I went to the test by myself. Once there, the recruiter told me "If you run, plant your foot on the center and push up, use that momentum to pull yourself up, you can do it." Sure enough, I did it the first time. I never thought I would scale that wall, it seemed like to big a challenge.
In life, we are often overwhelmed. The army of responsibilities seems to be too much and the enemy thrives on stealing our time because if he is successful, he has pulled us from growing in Christ. The enemy wants to keep us in the dark but in Christ there is light.
It may look like we have hit a wall and it is too much but with Christ, there are are always possibilities to scale that wall.
You, O Lord, keep my light burning; my God turns my darkness into light. With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God, I can scale a wall. Psalms 118:28-29
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