I Love My Schedule
If you're like me you enjoy a regimented schedule. You may get ready the same exact way every day, eat the same breakfast every morning, drive the same route to work day after day. If you're like me you enjoy the comfort level of your schedule, the safety of that pattern.
While there is much good in having a regimented schedule and importance in making sure we accomplish our daily to-do lists, sometimes our pattern can have us bound by the schedule and enslaved to our next check mark. We get so locked in that we miss things God may be trying to show us or asking us to do.
We must follow Jesus' example in handling our daily schedules. Nothing was too small or too great for Jesus to take interest.
Luke 4:40 says, "When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them."
Jesus was a man on a mission, He was led by the spirit, so essentially He had the most regimented schedule of any of us.
After finishing a long day of preaching in the synagogue, Jesus heads to the home of Simon, probably hoping to rest and recover. Instead, Simon's mother-in-law is sick so he heals her. The next thing He knows, people bring all their sick from the area to Him.
I love that we see Him take the time to lay his hands on every one of those who were brought to Him, every single one. It also mentions that the sun was setting when this happened, meaning that for a while Jesus was laying his hands on individuals, healing people in the dark.
We must be people who learn to get over our schedules and busyness and are open to being used by God. It makes it really hard to serve others when we are always focused 100% on serving ourselves. Today I am praying against my regimented schedule and for the Holy Spirit's leading in my life, will you join me?
While there is much good in having a regimented schedule and importance in making sure we accomplish our daily to-do lists, sometimes our pattern can have us bound by the schedule and enslaved to our next check mark. We get so locked in that we miss things God may be trying to show us or asking us to do.
We must follow Jesus' example in handling our daily schedules. Nothing was too small or too great for Jesus to take interest.
Luke 4:40 says, "When the sun was setting, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them."
Jesus was a man on a mission, He was led by the spirit, so essentially He had the most regimented schedule of any of us.
After finishing a long day of preaching in the synagogue, Jesus heads to the home of Simon, probably hoping to rest and recover. Instead, Simon's mother-in-law is sick so he heals her. The next thing He knows, people bring all their sick from the area to Him.
I love that we see Him take the time to lay his hands on every one of those who were brought to Him, every single one. It also mentions that the sun was setting when this happened, meaning that for a while Jesus was laying his hands on individuals, healing people in the dark.
We must be people who learn to get over our schedules and busyness and are open to being used by God. It makes it really hard to serve others when we are always focused 100% on serving ourselves. Today I am praying against my regimented schedule and for the Holy Spirit's leading in my life, will you join me?
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