Tweet Blunders
I’m learning to Tweet on Twitter. The learning process of expressing my thoughts and ideas frequently, unfortunately, involves occasional blunders. Recently I Tweeted a line that I clearly did not think through – something like, “People ask me how I do all I do…” and I gave some sort of preachy answer, like, “by working on several tasks each day, even if I can’t finish them,” -- as if this is really the key...
This morning before I ever opened my eyes, I was drowning in that system of partially started tasks needing immediate attention. Then a wet bed (with more dirty laundry) was added from one of my girls shortly before dawn. This kind of start wipes out any semblance of self-reliance I could muster and moves me into complete Savior-reliance.
My prayer time consisted of a basic cry for “HELP!” accompanied by cries for “Mercy…for all that I’m not…and all that I’m not doing…”
Just as He always does, the Lord brought me a fresh word – this time through a book I’m currently reading: Radical by David Platt. Certain I cannot be the only one with a need for help and mercy this day, here is what ministered to me.
Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God. Instead of dependence on ourselves, we express radical desperation for the power of his Spirit, and we trust that Jesus stands ready to give us everything we ask for so that he might make much of our Father in the world.
Then Platt asked a pointed question:
“Would you say your life is marked right now by desperation for the Spirit of God?”
May our days of chaos and endless unfinished tasks --- including unplanned linen changes --- be marked by one thing: our personal desperation for the Spirit of God.
Written on Tuesday, 30 November 2010 12:14 by Cheri Strange
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