Restless

Do you ever feel like you should be doing something else or more?  There are times when I have that tug on my heart to be doing something else.  Now don't get me wrong, I love what I do.  I like where I work, but there is still something missing.  I invest so much into my work including my time, my talents, my energy and sacrifice.  My work almost becomes my identity.  And reality is that I put more into my work than I do for God.  Wow, did you hear that?  


Americans spend most of our time either working or sleeping.  I think I'm starting to understand why I'm so restless.  Maybe it's because I'm not doing what Jesus said to do in Luke 10:27 "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself."  The key is to love him with ALL my strength and mind.  I can't give him whatever I left over after I worked 8 hours and spent an hour in traffic.  I have to give him all my strength.  One song comes to mind when I think of giving him all of me.  Steven Curtis Chapman has a great song, Do Everything for the Glory of God.  That means when I work, clean the house, take my kids to all their extra curricular activities, I do it as I am glorifying him.  


I'd love to give all my talents to him, and I will probably still be restless until I am working full-time for him.  I pray that I can make that happen here on Earth sooner than later.  I know I will be serving him when I reach heaven, but someday soon everything that I produce will to be share his word and help others grow.  I know that's what he has for me.  He has put that on my heart, and some day I will step out in faith to serve him.

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