Daily Devotion 

 December 19                                                

Do Not Be Weighted Down by the clutter in your life:  lots of little chores to do sometime, in no particular order.  If you focus too much on these petty tasks, trying to get them all out of the way, you will discover that they are endless.  They can eat up as much time as you devote to them.

  

Instead of trying to do all your chores at once, choose the ones that need to be done today.  Let the rest slip into the background of your mind, so I can be in the forefront of your awareness.  Remember that your ultimate goal is living close to Me, being responsive to My initiatives.  I can communicate with you most readily when your mind is uncluttered and turned toward Me.  Seek My Face continually throughout this day.  Let My Presence bring order to your thoughts, infusing Peace into your entire being.

  

  

Proverbs 16:3 (NIV)
3 Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.   

  

Matthew 6:33 (NIV)
33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  

 

A Favorite Quote:

 

Do Not Rush.  Trust.  And Keep a Quiet Heart.

 

I think I find most help in trying to look on all the interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as a discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one's work.  Then one can feel that perhaps one's true work -- one's work for God -- consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one's day.  It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day -- the part one can best offer to God.  After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it.  -- Annie Keary, 1825-1879  

   

 

                             

~ Jesus Calling...Enjoying Peace in His Presence, by Sarah Young

 

 


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