FRENZY

Life feels a bit this way right now. It seems as if the frenzy never ends. Every year that I can really remember I have said, “This is the year that things will settle down a bit.” However, they never do. It seems that as soon as we get through one whirlwind of life another is right behind it. There may be a day or two where we can catch a breif breath or a glimmer of seeing the back of our eyelids, but then we are once again brought back to the reality that the ever present frenzy is back. I have been looking at my life a lot lately and trying to figure out how to get out of this frenzy of life. It seems as if Jesus was never in a frenzy. Even in his last moments of being beaten and humiliated there was no frenzy. Everything he did was deliberate and thought out. It was his purpose and he was content in that. He understood that his will was the will of the Father and he was not going to allow the frenzy of the world to dictate his purpose of the Father.

This week is a good example of this for me. Even when I think I have the perfect laid plan there is always something to distract. The problem is, is that they are all good things…worthy things…godly things.

Yesterday:

I did a funeral for family friends who lost their father. Went straight from there to write and work on sermon stuff. Left there to get my kids and have family night. Got the kids to bed and hung with the wife and did mindless things like watch Hero’s and the Office on TIVO.

Today:

Meetings from 9:00am-4:00pm. AKA “Death By Meeting Day”. Then pick up the kids and head home. Wife got called into work for a full day today. That means I get to get dinner and baths and bed done tonight. Back to the days where she used to work twelve hour shifts.

Rest of the week:

Take the last two days and multiply them by by five and you have the rest.

The question is, when is there time to get with the Father? When is there time to get away from the Frenzy? When is there time to pour into the overflow of the Holy Spirit within me? Time to step away from the Frenzy and step into the flow of Christ in me.