As I was sharing with Tom yesterday about my struggles—feeling unproductive, restless, and uncomfortable with spending more time at home with the Lord—he simply asked:
"So… spending time with the Lord isn’t productive?"
DOH! That hit me.
When he put it that way, I suddenly felt ashamed and embarrassed that I had been struggling with it so much! Had I really been seeing my time with God Himself as wasted? As less valuable than checking off a to-do list?
I didn’t realize how deeply ingrained my mindset was—that productivity meant doing, accomplishing, and achieving. But in that moment, my perspective shifted.
Time with the Lord is productive. In fact, it’s the most productive thing I can do.
I praise God for this season—this gift of time to seek Him, to know Him, to sit in His presence. And I pray that I will learn to embrace it instead of resisting it.
POWER-Minute
March 14, 2008
CAN HE? WILL HE?
“Is anything too hard for the LORD?” Genesis 18:14
Absence of failure is a concept that is foreign to most of us. It is beyond our comprehension to grasp the idea of determining a thing and accomplishing it without trial or error. Yet we were created by God who can do anything and everything but fail.
When asked how He could possibly supply meat to several million Israelites in the wilderness, God’s response was “Is the Lord’s arm too short?” (Numbers 11:23). Jonathan assured his armor bearer that having a massive amount of soldiers was not necessary for a victory (1 Samuel 14:6). Jeremiah (32:17) said, “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.”
Trusting and believing Him should be second nature. Faith should be our response to every challenge. Our faith is a place of refuge and deliverance—a holy expectation. To respond in any other manner goes against the reality that our God CANNOT fail!!!!
Can He? Will He? ALWAYS!!!!
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