“I know, I know”, your saying "sure those moments are great but they are not reality!" Reality is the daily grind...the push and pull to please people as well as to be chained to your adult responsibilities. It means giving of yourself sometimes until you have nothing left to give. It is what happens when youth escapes and career, family, bills, stress, cell phones and obligations take over. This is why I believe, youth looks so good to so many people and why it has been categorized as "the best days of your life" because as such--- none of the reality of adult life exists. I don't know about you but I certainly do not want to live 80 or so years and only have had 12-18 of them be my "best" ones!
Since I was very little, I have heard the phrase, "There is just not enough time in the day" ring in my ears and eventually it became engraved on my heart. In the last few years, God has been helping me come to terms with this concept. You see, He did not play a terrible trick on us by putting only 24 hours of time in a day when we really needed 32! God knows this present age life that we live in... He knows the hurried pace and He knows the temptation...He also chose you "for such a time as this". He knows that you can handle it and you can make the daily, hourly, sometimes moment by moment decision to live in the here and now. "I discipline my body and bring it under subjection." (1 Corinthians 9:27) This is a deliberate decision---a conscience choice to let your Creator guide you through this life and not just succumb to its pressures. Keep in mind this is not some new-age power of the will or yoga breathing technique; it is simply keeping your mind on Him. “Remain in Me and I will remain in you.” (John 15:4) As we walk with God, we take on His attitudes, His principles, His thoughts, His perspectives and his heart. I promise as you do this you will react differently to your life...you will see more clearly...you will appreciate those around you more and you will be able to withstand the trials of life to a greater degree.
As I write this, I obviously don’t know where you are in your life right now or what aspects of yourself you have surrendered to Him (if any). My challenge for myself and for you is to let go of another piece or maybe the first one for some of you. And let him begin to invade it, soak it, saturate it. My prayer for this blog is that eventually as you release more and more over to him your days may be plagued with less chaos and less of an out of control lifestyle. You might just look up and find your entire being in him. “He must become greater, I must become lesser.” (John 3:30) You might just find yourself ALL IN!
