Has life been hectic? Your schedule packed?

Life is busy. That is good. But sometimes I have so many things to do, I hardly know what to do first. Usually, I end up making a list and set about doing all those things.

Then, suddenly, I find myself so busy doing things that I forget to just live (allusion to Pollyanna). I am so busy — “serving the Lord” as we all like to put it — planning out the children’s Bible lessons for next week, printing out coloring pages for another person’s class, translating lessons for still another person’s class, organizing for the annual children’s program coming up soon, working out music specials for the upcoming Bible Conference, calling up people to work this all out. . . then my own schedule: completing the course work for school, music practice, reading books, keeping up with friends, printing out DIY bag tutorials for one friend, looking up crochet videos for another, microwavable gingerbread cookies for my mother, blogging (which often gets set aside) and on and on . . .

I don’t have much time left over . . . And what time I have left over, I tend to use up for myself, sometimes foolishly, wastefully.

And I get selfish. I begin thinking that nothing else matters as much as this schedule I have to accomplish or that nothing else is so important as completing the items in my to-do list.

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“Be still and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10). When I forget to stand still, I forget to marvel. I forget to wonder. I forget to think right.

Being still. When was the last time you were still? We are like crazy little termites hurrying about as if the sky would fall if we didn’t keep ourselves occupied. Being still is perhaps the last thing we would think of if someone asked us what we’d like to do.

But simply getting up from my little corner and staring at the open sky does wonders. It just puts things in perspective. My little corner is not the whole world. There are other people besides me. And when I do stop to think, my mind slowly begins to realize once more how little I am. How insignificant. How tiny. I’m in this little corner. This little city. In this little country. There are so many other countries. Thousands of cities. Millions of people. Billions of people.

Look up at the sky today. God made it immeasurable for a purpose: to let you and me see how little we are. How insignificant. God doesn’t need me. Nor does He need you.

Yet He loved me. He loved you.

Your to-do list? Your schedule?

You can smile now.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Ps. 8:3-4)

25 May 2014

25 May 2014

TIME . . . DAYS, HOURS, MINUTES, SECONDS

TIME . . . DAYS, WEEKS MONTH, YEARS

Time passes so quickly. I have to think to remember where it has gone. Many times I cannot remember.

I thought that 2014 was just coming in — but 5 months are almost gone already. We Christians will have to give account to our Master.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad” (2 Corinthians 5:10).

So where have I succeeded today? Where have I failed?

Today, I woke up late. Too late for me to be able to post the time here. Therefore, I dreamt obnoxiously silly dreams and had to remind myself of Franklin’s “He who wakes late must trot all day” with regret. However, because of everyone’s cooperation and Christ-likeness, I did not get scolded.

There were other things, today, though. Right off in the morning, I was discouraged by all the work I had to do — I made a terrible list and stared at it. It didn’t seem too bad, then. It helped me realize that I wanted to do things that I didn’t need to do and didn’t want to things I needed to do.

I found these verses in the cross-referencing while reading Jeremiah 16:17 — Jer. 32:19, Job 34:21, Prov 5:21, 15:3. The LORD God sees me, nothing is hid from His eyes. I need to walk before Him today.

I also took time to read over Life Purpose Statement (which I worked on until it was too late yesterday).

“I believe that He “Who worketh all things after the counsel of His Own will” has authored my life purpose. Since He designed my life-plan, God Himself is the One to control it and reveal it to me. My whole pursuit of God’s pre-determined purpose for my life is the result of this belief — to walk where He has before-ordained for me. I am the Master’s handmaiden — called to serve Him in any way He leads me. It is my desire to use the gifts and talents He has given me to to reach children and Christian young people of Nepal and provide them the necessary guidance, direction, and training to serve God with their lives. God has led me and I know that He will lead me all the way. Without Him, I can do nothing. I am nothing. But in Him, I shall accomplish what He wills me to. I am His.”

But the best thing I loved today was Joshua chapter one — all the wonderful promises, all the encouraging commands.

^“7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest.

⁸ This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

⁹ Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.“

If I knew how, I’d have colored the words in blue and green as I did in my Bible. I love the command “neither be thou dismayed” because I was dismayed and discourage at that time.

I think I just learned something when I wrote that last sentence. I’d been wondering about how a person could love God’s commands and rejoice in them as mentioned many times in Psalm 119. I could understand that I could love His promises, but His commands? Yes, His commands!!!

¹⁶ I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

(note: statutes ~ “law” in Nepali Bible and in Strongs: “statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed”)

³⁵ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

⁴⁷ And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

⁴⁸ My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Thus, in His strength I attempted to walk through the day. I know I have not attained. But I will strive.

Since it is getting somewhat late — Baba, Mommy, Sumpurna went on visitation. Upa and I stayed home. I translated 3.25 lessons of Ringu for coming Children’s Program and did the First assessment for PreCalculus (31%) and worked on completing 20 topics besides the daily cooking, cleaning, and blogging (from today on, I hope).

I enjoyed writing this post — though my eyes are somewhat disagreeing at the moment — because it was a good review for me, I learned from Psalm 119, and it was like a short study, too.

I think I have failed as yesterday in the matter of going “early to bed,” though. I will, now, right after my fexofenadine.

One ending highlight, though: I loved singing “How Great Thou Art” in harmony with my family tonight. Really and truly, He is great. I pride in nothing that I am — but in the God I am privileged to know and love and serve. Amen.