Okay, I know...it's been a week since I've posted last and I have no excuse. Well, I have LOTS of excuses, but none of them good enough to waste time typing.
I have 5 minutes before I have to wake up my daughter and begin her day, along with the day of her two younger siblings. In that five minutes, I have a question for you, that is, the void in the universe where the internet goes when it's tired....
How does a person get it all done?
Seriously...how can I watch all these people get all these things accomplished and I don't even feel like I can keep up with my own self? I have a mental list of things I'd like to accomplish in a given day or week and I can't do it. For a while I thought I just wasn't doing it. I realized this morning I can't. Or at least, up until now I couldn't.
But why do I feel like I should still be able to? Why can't I get up early, get to the gym, get the dishwasher emptied, clean up the house after five people, three animals and a tank of fish, finish the laundry, get Annie off to school, keep the other two off each other and occupied all day long, get my writing done, get my internet work done, keep up with this devotional blog, lead worship for Bible study, get my Bible study homework done, make dinner every night, stay within a budget, get my projects finished around the house, get my knitting done, run my jewelry website, and not fall asleep on the couch by 8:30 pm???
I see plenty of other women running around getting all sorts of things done. One of my problems is that I compare myself. It's a nasty habit and I've had it for years. So that doesn't help...
The other problem is that I'm tired of the same old answers:
"God will never give us more than we can handle." Baloney. God will give us plenty, but we have to trust Him to help us handle it.
"You can do all things in Christ who strengthens you." "All things" doesn't literally mean "ALL THINGS POSSIBLE."
"Just give it over to God." That's the worst offender of all.
So, I ask...HOW do you give it over to God? People tell me to do it, but no one ever says how. How do I let God show me how to manage my time and what to cut out of my list and not have my protective-planner-of-a-self take over it again?
I usually answer my own questions in this blog, but I'm serious this time. It's just a question...
How do you do it and how am I supposed to?
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Hello My Dear,
The question is a hard one and one that all of us ask. I don't claim to have "the answer", but after reflecting on it I do have a few thoughts.
In the reference to "You can do all things in Christ who strengthens you." Just taking this verse by itself it tells you to give it over to God, but it doesn't tell you how.
Context is key in so many things, and after reading the verses surrounding it the picture becomes a little clearer.
First and foremost Paul says he has learned to be content. He goes on to list how he is content.
Second, Paul shows that he had outside support. The Philippians were a huge source of support to Paul. He shows us this in verses 14-18.
I can't tell you how to become content, I am working on how to be content myself. I do see that understanding how to be content as a primary key to answering your question.
I can help with the support factor. I will do my best to share in your distress as the Philippians shared in Paul's.(verse 14)
I know this isn't an answer, but I hope that reflecting on these verses along with a another perspective will help.
Philippians
Chapter 4
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
14 Nevertheless you have done well that you shared in my distress.
15 Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.
16 For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.
17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.
18 Indeed I have all and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things sent from you, a sweet-smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
20 Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Do less?
hahahahhahahaha
Hire a maid?
hahahhahahahahhaha
Child labor will work for you in another few years.
I hope that encourages you....or at least made you laugh.
Stop smirking at the screen.
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