Submitted by Tracie Warren, PWOCI Assistant Curriculum Development
Life can be busy. I currently find myself in a season where busy is an understatement. There have been nights I would lie in bed mentally going through the coming day’s to-do list trying to determine which tasks could be pushed off to another day, because I knew, before the day even began, that I would not get through it all. Ever been there? It is exhausting – physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tired of being tired, I went to the One I knew could help. I cried out to God, “I’m doing many things but I’m doing none of them well. Please, show me what I need to release, what I need to lay aside.” I felt that I had surely stepped beyond God’s will for my life and had taken on things He had not called me to. Isn’t that what we so often do…assume that because things are uncomfortable or difficult we must have made a mistake somewhere? Imagine my surprise when God’s response was simply, “some seasons are busy.” Some seasons are busy? “But God, isn’t busy bad? Isn’t busy Satan’s ploy to keep us ineffective?” I felt God speak to my heart, “Sometimes, Tracie. Sometimes busy is bad, but other times, busy is exactly where I’ve placed you.” As those words fell on me, this thought came to mind – sometimes we battle busy and sometimes we are busy in battle.
God showed me that right now, He has placed me in a busy season and my problem is not in what I am doing, but in how I have been doing it. I have been trying to do my to-dos without Him. I’ve not been relying on Him and His guidance. God taught me that, as with Martha (Luke 10:41-42), there is only one thing I need to do, and that is seek Him first. When I look to Him first and foremost, He will guide me through, not only my to-do list, but every aspect of my life. When I focus on Him, He will strengthen me and lead me in accomplishing all that He has called me to do.
I have learned afresh that if we will seek God first, He will equip us for every good work. We really can do all things through Christ, and sisters, we can do them well, but only when we determine to rely on Him, to follow Him, and to allow Him to guide us and lead us and walk beside us.
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