“Jobs are not big enough for people.”
— The Call: Finding and Fulfilling God’s Purpose For Your Life by Os Guinness
You are a finite person – there are no “omni” words that can be used for you. You are neither omniscient (all-knowing) or omnipotent (all-powerful) and you certainly are not able to be fully everywhere at every given moment (omnipresent).
Don’t be offended; neither am I.
Of course you and I both know people who do think they are pretty much all of the above, which means you and I have to be pretty much omni-patient.
But anyway, for the rest of us mere finite mortals, there will always be the tension of trying to balance life.
Just like trying to get your money’s worth at an all-you-can eat buffet without shortening your life, you will be managing a balancing act between family and career, relationships and making your numbers, and eating ice cream and not breaking the scales, along with dozens of other priorities.
So how do you do it?
Let’s be honest: How do we do it (I’m not only preaching to the choir, I’m preaching to myself!)
Here’s my advice – and believe me – there are decades of painful experimentation, evaluation, and reprioritizing behind my advice.
This is what I have decided: I will let my devotional life be the lid on my life.
What that means is that if I don’t get anything else done in a day, I shall spend time with God. Before family and friends, before my job and career, before my bucket list, shoot…even before ice cream, I shall spend time with God.
Like the flight attendant’s advice about putting on your own oxygen mask before trying to assist others, I have truly come to understand that God will show me the path of life and in His presence is fullness of joy; at His right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16:11)
Like you, not being “omni” anything, I am faced everyday with more to do than I have capacity to do. So what do I do? I spend time with God first (along with a cup of coffee) and with the time that is left I do what I can (also with a cup of coffee nearby).
The ONE THING for today: There is a lid on what you can do. and how successful you can be. Let that lid be your personal time with God.
O God, You are my God; Early will I seek You;
Psalm 63:1 (NKJV)
The ONE THING 