Sitting, fearful, lazy, procrastinating–too much time spent sitting, waiting. Too much time day-to-day spent expending energy on things that have choked out my time with the Lord. Things that are not unimportant, but have pushed God down my priority list and given Him the position of 5th or 6th place.
Fear has been the root of my misplaced prioritization and non-activity–can’t quite put a word to what exactly the fear has been related to or what it was about. It was like an anxiousness, an overwhelming feeling coupled with heaviness, weight. The kind of fear that can be paralyzing.
Knowing I should be doing something with my God given skills, but not knowing what first step to take, so I did nothing. And the nothing stretched from days to weeks to months. Letting life happen to me, reacting to the situations around me. Doing the daily things and every day feeling more overwhelmed, more mentally and physically tired–getting further and further away from the source of my strength-my God and my King.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, spiritual victories were won during those several months, but it was an ebb and flow of the Lord’s presence, not by God’s actions, but my inactions. I did not have consistency, sustained power or growth in my spiritual walk. My walk was slowed to a crawl and crawling is no place for a victor in Christ.
That is what I am, what WE are-victors in Christ! The days are over going through my day doing the most and accomplishing nothing. Spinning my wheels and falling out from exhaustion and getting nowhere. God has put too much in me for it to be wasted. He has given too much, including the blood of His very own son, for me just to sit.
The question I present to you is are you operating in who God has created you to be or are you waiting, sitting, procrastinating? What are you waiting on-more hours in the day, less tasks, when you feel like it? There are not going to be more hours in the day. It is up to us to choose how we spend those hours-be more purposeful with our time.
Are you ready? I am ready, too. Let’s stop sitting together and “run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1B). Be all we are created to be in Christ!
Prayer Warrior 