Diddle Away the Days

     I diddle away a lot of time. Rarely is it purposeful, rather I'm indecisive about the "best" way to do something, so I spend an inordinate amount of time researching, deliberating, and checking out how others have done it, what others think about it, and what my husband would want to do about it. By that time, I'm so over "it" that I do nothing at all! The missing ingredient in "it" is prayer and meditation on God's Word. I don't want to "bother" God about the little things so I labor over them until they become big! "Doing" without God's direction can become a time wasting snare.

     My true desire is to take everything to the Lord and allow Him to sift through the daily debris and help me focus on only that which will glorify Him and benefit others eternally. This choice will take intentionally and consistently giving over of my desires and asking the Holy Spirit to fill me with the desires of the Lord while at the same time, emptying me of the desires of my flesh and the influences of the world. 

Isaiah 27: 11 Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues
    God will speak to this people,
12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
13 So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured and snared and captured.