My Ultimate Purpose

Lists
Lists
Lists

Are you a list maker? Gosh, I keep them all over my house, in my purse, and sometimes even in my car! I'll put a coat or jacket on and find them in my pockets, weeks or months later. I don't think I could function without my "lists". However, no matter how hard I try, it sometimes seems like trying to get all of those things done is just impossible! You would think 24 hours in one day was enough time, but most days it's just not. Something must be wrong, but what is it?

All of us have to play multiple roles in our lives, and wear many different hats. It can get easy to become overwhelmed by all of the demands that life can bring. Sometimes I fear if I stop juggling, all the balls will come crashing down. Whew, I'm just blessed that God doesn't demand for me to complete every one of the items on my “to do lists” everyday. He knows our frame, our strengths, and our weaknesses. He is there to come along side with us. He really wants us to learn the secret of how to lean more on Him. That is when He can help us the most to bear all the burdens of life.

Thanks Lori for sharing this awesome quote in this week’s “In Other Words”. Yes, there is hope!

"We leave something incomplete everyday, whether it's an area of housework, school, work, friendship, ministry ~ because we are finite."
Taken from The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer.

I find when I get my priorities straight, I can get more accomplished each day. I once read a great analogy about keeping your life in balance. Someone once said, it's like having a jar you are filling up with rocks of various sizes. If you put the biggest rock in first, you can fill the remaining space with the little rocks. However, if you attempt to put the little rocks in first, the big rock will never fit in that jar. What is the biggest ROCK in your jar?

If we put God, (spending time in prayer and in the Word) on our schedules first, then our family, our careers, our ministry, and so on, will manage to work themselves out. God first, then everything thing else will get in line after God.

I know one list I want to complete, and that is what God has purposed and called for me to do for Him. At the end of it all, I want to be able to say I have lived well, run a good race, and finished my course. Then when we finally get the chance to stand before him face to face and hear those words every child of God longs to hear:

"Well done, good and faithful servant".

Some of those other things will just have to go undone because after all I am just finite.
OK, I think I'll go and put that on the top of my list ...that is if I can find it!

Please join us today at my precious friend Lori's blog All You Have to Give as she host's;