Joy Full Work

I’ve been WAY busy lately.  Sometimes, I get frustrated and confused as to how I got to this point.  Every moment is full.  There’s barely any down time, even on Sunday.  But, it’s also energizing.  The goals are short and reactions encouraging so I plug away.  And I’m finally learning a very important lesson.  Pray!  Give it to God.  Watch what He does with you once you’ve turned into a bundle of over-anxious nerves.  (Actually, if we’d start with Him, we would not get to that point.)

As I contemplated all the busyness this week (and after I had to survive yet another question of  “what do you do all day?”), I began to dissect each activity and why I was doing them.  As it turned out, if I wasn’t a Christian, I wouldn’t be doing any of the things I was doing.  Now, this is not a brag!!  I’ll have to say, I was in utter amazement at that realization.  It excited me that God in His grace has taught me “great and mighty things I did not know” and has brought me to the place where, these things are second nature.  I need you to know that I do not mean that I’ve arrived.  To the contrary, I believe I have just begun.  He continues to show me sin in my life, people who need Him, and work that needs doing.  And isn’t that what it’s all about for believers?

In studying Jesus prayer in John 17, one of the first things He says is, “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.”  What my prayer needs to be is, “God give me the discernment to know which work to do and give me the power to do it.”  And then in John 16:24 and 17:13, He says, “…ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.”  “…these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.”   That’s definitely energizing!  To have Jesus’ joy made full in us!  Joy full work!  “For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.”  Colossians 1:29  AMEN!!