Busyness of Life
I tend to wander off. Do you know what I mean?
Take a tour of my life for a moment: I'm married and have three small kids. I have a full-time job and am involved in two ministries. I'm in church every time the doors are open and I have some of the greatest friends on the planet, friends that I often spend time with. Can we all agree that these are all good things? They're God-given, beautiful things. And Jesus flows through each of these areas. And yet…I wander off so very often.
It's 6:33 PM on the 7th of August. Any other month this year, I would have had weeks of notes prepared, an anecdote, and a little whimsy. This month, though, I sit here preparing this piece hours after I would have had it prepared and posted any other month. You might ask why, and I could give you a list a mile long to tell you…but the reality is that this month, I was just "too busy" for Jesus. Yep, I wrote that out and every letter stung. I have over-committed, over-worked, over-cleaned, over-stepped, over-mothered, and LORD KNOWS I have done too much laundry - OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Even as I prepared to sit down and write tonight, I had to clean my house first. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME? I wandered. I convinced myself that I had to get it "right" first.
WRONG.
"All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but not all things edify." - 1 Corinthians 10:23
The words leaped from the page. Has that always been in scripture? Why is this my first time seeing it? I'll be the first to tell you that I still have so much to learn of God's Word, but that…that felt like something I should have read before this moment. I wrote it down on my calendar in an attempt to ensure that I would see it over and over again. Maybe God would give me a revelation or some big picture in the sky. Or maybe, just maybe…this was a subtle whisper from a Father to His daughter:
"Child, it may be 'okay', but it's not what I want for you."
Y'all, to a fault, I overdo it. My family is good. My home is good. My job is good. My ministries are good. My friends are good. But when I leave my joy in HIM out of it…why am I doing this stuff?
Tonight, I'm approaching you as a sister who is struggling to juggle it all. As a sister whose lens was a little foggy this month. I think we're all a little guilty of this sometimes, but tonight I confess to you that "taping this scripture to my calendar so I'll see it" wasn't a Chelsea move, it was a Jesus move. He had me place it in a place that needs work.
Let's make a deal: you pray for me and I'll pray for you. Pray for time to move a little slower (and maybe even stretch out a bit), after all, He is the creator of time. Pray for more sweet moments where we see the hands of an Almighty God in little moments throughout your busy day. And pray that when we get a little too busy and we're missing "it", Jesus smacks us in the face with scripture that may as well say: "Hey, I love you. Slow down and look at me."
I love you, sister. AND HE DOES, TOO.
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