Life Happens

In one of my previous posts, I talked about nurturing the divine nature that lives in us. If we have life happening on a 24/7 basis where every waking minute is filled with kids, jobs, spouses, friends, family and basic household chores, what time is left for God.

Let's talk about that a little. So, life is very busy, to the point of complete distraction. It's no wonder most people are only able to go to church for two or three hours and do a quick recharge instead of a full every day walk. I get it, life gets in the way but God is in you and goes with you wherever you are. I too have gotten busy living life to where I didn’t put my full attention where it needs to be. 

What is it that God wants from us? If we let life consume us to the point of complete distraction and we no longer walk in Him but become frustrated, aggravated and always overwhelmed, then we have stepped out of Him and back into self. If however life comes at you and your walk in Him, through faith in Him, continues, well then your busy life becomes easier to handle. I can attest to that fact as today will be very busy for me at work. Some of this is being written before work and undoubtedly as I don't have time to write the whole thing, the rest will be written tonight. So, I will be the experiment. 

My faith should never waiver in Him at all because He never waivers. My faith in Him tells me that His life lives in me and He orders my steps each day. My faith says not to worry about how I act or handle things because He is there to do and bring forth His nature and not mine. I have to trust that. If I go to work worried how things will go then I've already taken control from Him. If I dread the day ahead then I don't have faith that He will be in me to show me love. If I say anything negative then I set myself up for failure and faith doesn't do what faith is supposed to do.

Being busy and living the life that is expected of you doesn't take you away from God, He goes with you everywhere you go if you let Him. 

Let's see how today goes for me in a high stress environment and I'll report the results. 

Well, here I am about 13 hours later, 9 hours of work and the other 4 getting ready, commuting (twice), and dinner. So what do I have to report, as I said before, it was a high stress situation but I didn't stress. A couple of things went wrong and I was able to not let them affect me like they would have before I started just handing everything over to God. I was able to keep cool, not lose composure and even have fun. I just hope that those around me saw God and not myself. 

So, what is it I learned or gleaned from today, that God doesn't need flashy long prayer sessions or three hours worth of studying to have a relationship with Him. It just takes the letting go of the controls and letting Him live through you to do His will, which is to show us love and those around us love.

To put in perspective on the time management, I started this post two days ago and am now just finishing it. I don't want anyone to think that personal quiet time alone with God isn't necessary. It is very necessary. I don't want anyone to think that time reading the Bible isn't necessary. It too is necessary. However, set time aside when you can and always know He is right there with you walking hand in hand. Make time yet don't stress if you cannot. Take advantage of small moments. Taking a shower? Use that time to talk to Him and thank Him for being our God. Folding laundry, same thing. Driving to work, take that time to ask Him questions, to seek understanding. Grocery shopping, tell yourself before you enter, I will step down from being in control of my emotions and feelings and I will let God move in me to be Him through me.

So many opportunities we don't even think can be used to put Him first in our lives. We can live our fast and furious lives with Him at the wheel or we can try to stear it ourselves. Once we taste and see His goodness, we'll want to spend more time with Him and that all important TV time you crave may be an opportunity to go to a quiet place and just seek Him.

Let's live with purpose. Walk daily, seek Him out in everything. Spend every small moment possible thinking of Him, talking to Him and thanking Him for His presence and goodness in us. Don't push Him away from mundane life but include Him. Take quiet time to talk with Him. Let His life abound in us and life may not turn out to be so overwhelming as we once thought.

To God be the Glory!