You Can't Do It All
This morning, with high hopes of completing a few of several reports that are due, I plopped down on my office chair. By 5:00pm, emails had been answered, phone calls made and received, research performed, but no reports were finished. Where had my day gone?
Tomorrow, I planned to finish my women's Bible study lessons and work on organizing paperwork for our taxes. But it looks like I'll be working on my unfinished reports. It was timely, after all this lamenting on so much to do, that my reading today in Joanie Yoder's book, God Alone, pages 158-159 was entitled, "You Can't Do It All." Here's an excerpt from what she wrote:
How did He (Jesus) do it all? His priorities determined His use of time. He withdrew regularly to get time alone with His Father for rest and prayer. He was with His Father when His disciples intruded to say, "Everyone is looking for you" (Mark 1:37). But Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else--to the nearby villages--so I can preach there also" (v. 38)
Whenever Jesus turned His face toward one responsibility, He had to turn His back on another, just as we must do. But instead of letting the pressure of unmet needs determine His direction, he responded according to His sense of God's purpose. He sharpened that sense daily through solitude with His Father--and so should we.
Get your priorities from the Lord, and you won't be frustrated when you find you can't do it all.
Tomorrow, I planned to finish my women's Bible study lessons and work on organizing paperwork for our taxes. But it looks like I'll be working on my unfinished reports. It was timely, after all this lamenting on so much to do, that my reading today in Joanie Yoder's book, God Alone, pages 158-159 was entitled, "You Can't Do It All." Here's an excerpt from what she wrote:
How did He (Jesus) do it all? His priorities determined His use of time. He withdrew regularly to get time alone with His Father for rest and prayer. He was with His Father when His disciples intruded to say, "Everyone is looking for you" (Mark 1:37). But Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else--to the nearby villages--so I can preach there also" (v. 38)
Whenever Jesus turned His face toward one responsibility, He had to turn His back on another, just as we must do. But instead of letting the pressure of unmet needs determine His direction, he responded according to His sense of God's purpose. He sharpened that sense daily through solitude with His Father--and so should we.
Get your priorities from the Lord, and you won't be frustrated when you find you can't do it all.
Great picture.
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