Tuesday, April 16, 2002
I'VE BEEN PEGGED
One thing I love about Pastor Clive's Sunday School class is how the topic usually leads to some tangent. Now, that's usually a bad thing, right? But in his class, it always ends up pertaining to something extremely relevant to real life. We end up talking about what struggles we really have and maybe more importantly, why we have them. It's a little psychology mixed in with a little theology.
I'm still thinking and dwelling on one thing he mentioned last Sunday. And the reason why it has stuck with me is because he basically described my personality. We were talking about being too busy and not having enough time for God. In order to be a true disciple, we must not only follow Him but obey Him. And the only way to know how to do that is by spending time with Him. But we all have our excuses - being busy probably being number one.
But why are we so busy? Is it because being busy and taking on maybe more than we can handle lends itself to us feeling needed. And feeling needed leads us to feel better about ourselves and improve our self-esteem? But shouldn't our own self-worth come from who we are and who God has made us and is continuing to make us to be? And if we TRULY believe that, then shouldn't we have great self-esteem and not need to rely on feeling needed by others? And wouldn't that allow us to say "no" to things we may not be as gifted in and focusing instead on areas where we do have spiritual gifts? And wouldn't that in turn make us less busy and give us time for things that truly matter?
Whoa! That totally, 100% describes me. At that point, I literally felt like God was speaking directly to me through Pastor Clive.
So now the question is: What am I going to do about it?
One thing I love about Pastor Clive's Sunday School class is how the topic usually leads to some tangent. Now, that's usually a bad thing, right? But in his class, it always ends up pertaining to something extremely relevant to real life. We end up talking about what struggles we really have and maybe more importantly, why we have them. It's a little psychology mixed in with a little theology.
I'm still thinking and dwelling on one thing he mentioned last Sunday. And the reason why it has stuck with me is because he basically described my personality. We were talking about being too busy and not having enough time for God. In order to be a true disciple, we must not only follow Him but obey Him. And the only way to know how to do that is by spending time with Him. But we all have our excuses - being busy probably being number one.
But why are we so busy? Is it because being busy and taking on maybe more than we can handle lends itself to us feeling needed. And feeling needed leads us to feel better about ourselves and improve our self-esteem? But shouldn't our own self-worth come from who we are and who God has made us and is continuing to make us to be? And if we TRULY believe that, then shouldn't we have great self-esteem and not need to rely on feeling needed by others? And wouldn't that allow us to say "no" to things we may not be as gifted in and focusing instead on areas where we do have spiritual gifts? And wouldn't that in turn make us less busy and give us time for things that truly matter?
Whoa! That totally, 100% describes me. At that point, I literally felt like God was speaking directly to me through Pastor Clive.
So now the question is: What am I going to do about it?
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