I finished my big report! Now, all these little things I can do. Because it was like a giant log that was stuck and it passed, and now the rest of the water can flow, LOTS of little stick projects.
I prayed and prayed, not sure why this was that tough, but when I relied on God it was MUCH better. Jesus looked at me and essentially said: With your cluttered brain flow it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible. Put me first!… Yup!
I sort of sorted my priorities better and God found me the time to focus. I even found a rock in a jacket pocket that said “Focus” exactly when I needed it, to focus on Him to sharpen my focus on time and projects and life.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, put the big thing in first, like the rock order in that life organizing video lesson.
Plus I’m getting ready for a big plans and so there’s LOT’S of things I want to finish up. (We all do). And I can enjoy doing them even though it’s a ton of work. So if we can do this for life, why can’t we do this for death as well? Why can’t we see the big log as passed and focused on all the little things and some of those other big logs too, get them moving down stream. I mean, if we know that our salvation is set, by the blood of Jesus, then can’t we live our lives in JOY and just get stuff done for the Lord?
LEAVE THE STREAMS OF STRESS. FOLLOW JESUS.
I had a new insight re-reading a great old scripture story. I KNOW we KNOW Jesus said: FOLLOW ME. He also said how hard it is for people to trust Him and how hard it is for people to follow Him over TRUSTING and following their wealth and their plans and all those things they imagined for their life. They can’t flow because they are too busy stacking wood and never using it, sorting gravel and not the big rocks. We can’t get life in order if we don’t trust Him Whom orders it.
JESUS said GIVE and you will get 100-fold more. Jesus said TRUST and we do know through experience how much peace that gives. Jesus said and says FOLLOW and we do know He knows where we are going.
If we get our comfortablility with death peace piece in order, then life will probably flow better.
Jesus said the last will be first, well yeah. I bet when we get to Heaven (I’m praying for meeting you all there), we will say: “what were we so worried about on earth?! Jesus was right! ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD!”
LIKE NOW UP TO GOOD, JESUS GOOD.
AMEN
Matthew 10:17-31 NKJV
Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”
And he answered and said to Him, “Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth.”
Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”
But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
With God All Things Are Possible
Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, “Children, how hard it is for those who TRUST in riches to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, “Who then can be saved?”
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
Then Peter began to say to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You.”
So Jesus answered and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
That “BIG ROCKS FIRST” video: https://youtu.be/zV3gMTOEWt8?si=kHi7O-dr4zx6IwCx
Debbie Upper 