John’s Jots:
June. June! At the end of this month the year is half over! My goodness, I had so many things planned for 2011 and now it’s nearly half over. My list is not half done. Where did I go wrong?
Sound familiar? I’ll bet you are not all that different than me. So many things I desire to get done or accomplish but I am so-o-o-o busy! Probably the most important thing I would like to accomplish is to become more Christ like. Yes, that is a priority. Each day I begin by asking God to lead me through the day, but though I don’t like to admit it, it is not too far into the day that I realize I took my eyes off of my leader! I try my best, but I just seem to get off the path and go my own direction.
I would like to share a portion article I recently read on the internet written by Ron Rose called “The Path from Brokenness to Peace”
“"Look, I pray on Sunday, It's what you're supposed to do on church day," Kevin stated. "On Monday, it's business. Don't mess up my life asking me to mix the two."
All I wanted was for him to consider introducing his employees to Faith Notes. Frankly his words stunned me.
Somewhere in his past, Kevin, like many of us, began compartmentalizing his life, his identity. Each compartment has shaped its own version of Kevin. He has become a handful of different people: a churchman, a family man, a businessman, a networker, a public and a private guy. His calendar organizes it all and keeps his identities separate. Some would say he is gifted at it, but the real Kevin, the original Kevin, has gotten lost somewhere among all the copies.
As Kevin walked away, he turned and said, "I'm doing pretty well keeping everything separate and that's the way I like it."
Kevin is actually trying to keep the creator God locked up inside a day called Sunday. That way he gets his religious obligations dealt with early, and he can be whatever he needs to be during the week.
He has become a corporate Kevin playing difference roles as needed, but in the process life has grown more difficult and crowded. Integrity (God's version of Kevin) has vanished. Copies and caricatures complicate everything and peace is an illusion.
But, in defiance, Kevin rocks on. Until ...”
Maybe that is the problem, we try to compartmentalize Christ! Wherever we are we try to become what we think the people want us to be. When in reality we should be trying to be what God would have us to be. If we were to work on that goal, maybe, just maybe our list of things to get accomplished will get smaller instead of remaining on until next year. Let’s start today! Will I C U this Sonday?
John