Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105 (NLT)
Lately, I’ve found myself really busy. My day job has amped up in activity and my other job of living life for Jesus has done the same. I say there are two jobs when in reality, it is one job. My job is to live my life with all the activity in it for Jesus.
Frequently, we compartmentalize our lives. We have our families, our jobs and our spiritual walk but we keep them separate. It’s no wonder we can’t see God moving. If we keep spiritual things in a spiritual box, how do we expect to see God moving in our circumstances or in the lives of the people we live life with?
Whether I am attending meetings with hundreds (not kidding here) of people or I’m standing at a sink washing dishes, it’s all a life with Jesus filtered through it. If I am leading a Bible Study or working through a schedule with a team for a deployment, it’s all God’s work.
And when we see it that way, God gets free reign to move as he wants whether it be in work conversations or in a family member resting because I am doing dishes. God wants to be a part of all of it, not just a one day a week event.
So how do you live life keeping God at the center? For me, it’s my morning reset. Each morning I get up and spend time with Jesus. What I do isn’t so important....and that changes day to day depending on how I feel, but each day I come. And I reset.
I reset from thinking about my list of things to do to the people I will see that day. I get a reset from worrying about a particular problem to remembering that God is in charge of it all and he’s got this. I reset from looking at my overly full calendar to a mindset that this day belongs to Jesus and it will be what he wants it to be so I can let go. Mostly, I reset knowing I am loved and a part of a much bigger plan. I get to look at each day with excitement waiting to see what God is going to do.
Resetting my human agenda to God’s agenda is how I can keep the messy life I live centered with one purpose.....a Jesus purpose.