I hear and see it often. The conversation starts a little like this, “Girl, how are you doing?”
“I am tired and life is just so busy. There is just so much to do.”
“I hear you; me too.”
There has never been a more truer dialogue. Life is busy often tiring the mind, body, and soul. I don’t know about you, but my day starts a little like this. I am normally awake and out of the bed by 4:30am, (that’s the last time BJ wakes for a bottle, after having been up at least one other time prior during the night). Over the next two hours, I study, make lunches, iron clothes, pack backpacks, check email, wish my friends Happy Birthday on Facebook, prepare breakfast, and make sure a family of 5 is ready to face the world. By 7, I am either well on my way to school drop off, my next court appearance, and or laundry and cleaning for the day. (It all depends on the day of the week).
Before you know it, it’s 3 p.m. and time to do the car pool shuffle. We are all home by 5 and normally eating dinner by 6:30pm. But often there is a soccer game or practice, poopy diaper, or crying toddler that delays the main event of dinner. The evening is closed out with baths, homework, refereeing a three person title match between the kids, and a short book. By 8:30pm I am back in front of the computer working my small business, only to fall asleep on the couch with my husband by midnight to the voices of the political talking heads on MSNBC.
Most days I don’t know how I do it, and think to myself I can’t go on. Oh but I can, and so can you. The Bible reminds us that our God is one of mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness (Lam. 3:22-23). It also reminds us that his mercies endureth forever (Psalms 136).
Simple put, God’s love and compassion are never-ending. It is the fuel that sustains all of our lives and keeps the cares of the world and our personal lives from consuming us. It’s a love and compassion that remains each day, and renews itself with the rising of each new day. So when I think of my great task, I can run on because it fails in comparison to the accomplishments of the Greatest Task Master, our Lord Jesus Christ.
So I share my life not to brag but to encourage you. Encourage you to believe that all things are possible and can be done because He that is in you is greater than He that is in the world. God lives in you; therefore you are great and able. You can do whatever the Lord has assigned to you. I believe I am going to run on just to see what the end will be.
So thank God for his new mercies, run on, and in the words of my sister-in-law remember, God is better than good.
Psalm 136
Lamentations 3: 22-23
