I have been hosting a ladie's bible study in my home. I am co-teaching with a friend that is also a great teacher. We alternated sessions and as luck would have it, I got the chapter "Overwhelmed."
No, I don't think it was luck, I believe God actually worked it out that way. You see, like most of us, my scheduled is completely packed. I love working with kids and teaching but it takes so much time! It's an eight hour day everyday. That extends into grading papers, doing research, and planning lessons for me. So much for being retired.
I always prepare my bible study lesson way in advance asking God to lead me through it. One day as I left for school, I saw house after house after house with trash cans out. Many of the cans were completely packed! Some were overflowing.
It made me think how we are so much like that. We put things on our schedules and don't stop when it's getting full. We don't even stop when it is full. We don't stop until it is completely packed or overflowing.
Then we become overwhelmed with all we have to do. That "quiet time" reserved for God goes from one hour to thirty minutes to quoting a memorized bible verse and a quick prayer. The time that belongs exclusively to God is compromised.
Our mornings keep starting earlier and our nights just get longer. Do not "pack" your schedule so tight that you take all of God's time. He desires to be with you. Before you pack your schedule too tightly, remember to put Him first.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place and there....He prayed. Mark 1:35
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