Well, don’t you love it how a plan comes together?  Do you ever suffer from “tyranny of the urgent?”  That refers to those times when your schedule seems to be continually deterred by the needs and demands of the urgent.  I had a plan for this week and it totally took another direction.  Don’t get me wrong.  Most of these scheduling detours were for good things.  Most of them had ministry written all over them.  Good things?  Definitely.  Best things?  Not so sure.

So, here I am within a half hour of Friday and I have not accomplished hardly anything that I set out to do this week.  It has just been one of those crazy weeks.  I feel like I have definitely been a Martha this week in desperate need to follow Mary’s example.

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him.  She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed.  Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42)

I really feel that the Lord is telling me: “Bill, Bill.  You are trying to do so many things and accomplishing none of them with excellence.  Choose the one thing that is needed.  Seek first Me and everything else will fall into place (Matthew 6:33).”

So…I am going to seek Him first and invest some time in fellowship with my Lord.  I “plan” to get out that second part on the baptism of the Holy Spirit on Monday, but we will see.

In the meantime, if you are like me - a little frazzled and frustrated with your schedule - then take a breath, kick back, dig into the Word, and snuggle up in the loving embrace of your heavenly Father.

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