I haven't picked up my crocheting in almost a week, and the days I've missed have put me woefully behind schedule. This afternoon I'm playing catch-up, trying to make up for lost time. Every evening this week, I got off work with the intention of working on my squares, and every evening, I just didn't feel like doing it. I was so tired from work, I either fell asleep prematurely or chose to veg on some mindless activity. I spent some time in prayer in the mornings, but the crocheting conversations went by the wayside.
Time is not so much a matter of hours and minutes as a matter of priorities, thus the well worn excuse of, “I don’t have enough time,” loses its validity, exposed for the shallow deceit it is. In the midst of a busy life, it's easy to put time with God aside, to fit Him in only when it's convenient. Yet a relationship with Him ought not to be based on emotions, which are fickle, but on truth and commitment. In these I’ve discovered that it is the eternal which gives meaning to the temporal, and that my future hope governs the priorities of my present reality. Any priority that supersedes God is misplaced.
Time is not a limitation; it is a decision. Although this week may have highlighted my failures in that regard, as always, I strive to put Him first, as He should be.
Jeremiah 30:21b "I will bring him near and he will come close to me, for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?"
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