Good morning! Hope you had a good week. I can honestly say mine hasn't been bad, and I have gotten a lot of work done but I have spent the week feeling very behind. We were in the process of moving my office last weekend and I have a thing about messes and working when there are boxes and stuff just sitting around me. I get distracted. So, I was already behind on my work but when the guys moved my desk on Monday, I had to spend the rest of the day getting my office unpacked and back together. I knew that was important to my productivity. I am getting ready to head to the office today and try to get a better foothold on things there. I almost broke my promise I made to myself to stop working on anything ERBA related on Sundays. I didn't and there were times this week, I regretted it but we made it and that is all that really matters.
I thought it would be fitting to do our Bible Study on Matthew 11:28-30.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Highlight= Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Explain= Jesus was speaking to people who felt overwhelmed by the demands placed on them by the world. He and the disciples had been to many towns, they had preformed many miracles and still the people weren't turning to God. This had to be frustrating. They were offering a better life, and people weren't hearing it. At the time, religious leaders were putting lots of rules and expectations on them and making religion something God never intended it to be. Jesus said, stop putting your trust in all of these things and put your trust truly in Me. Instead of telling them to work harder or catch up faster, or do 12 things before the first hour they were up to please God, He offered something different. Rest. Not the kind that means abandoning responsibility, but the kind that comes from not carrying the burden. When Jesus says to take His yoke, He is saying we are not meant to pull the weight of life by ourselves. When I remember this, I sleep, when I can't turn things over to Him like I should, I don't. Some nights, I fall asleep just praying for Jesus to take over, and when rest finally comes, I know I have finally got things turned over to him. Apply= This week, I have felt behind. Work piled up while other responsibilities filled the evenings. There wasn't room to simply add a few more hours to the day. I put a lot of trust in God this week that He would help me not miss any deadlines and just make it to today. I had one project that I sadly was trying to multitask and I did make mistakes on. My bookkeeper caught it thankfully, but it put one set of payments back a week. I was trying to "multitask" which we learned several years ago, isn't really a thing, we are switch tasking and that is rapidly switching attention between tasks, which means you aren't concentrating solely on one thing and it adds a lot of room for mistakes. I need to remember that sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is pause, trust God with the pace, and then continue the work with a clearer mind. Feeling behind doesn't mean you're failing. It may simply mean you are human. Respond= Lord, When I feel overwhelmed and behind, remind me that You never intended for me to carry every burden by myself. Help me trust Your pace and Your presence in the work I've been given. Give me wisdom to balance responsibility and rest, an the peace to know that You are walking beside me.
I hope this helps if you are feeling overwhelmed, Stop, pray, turn it over to Him, and move forward. there are seasons to everything and this too shall pass.
~Mindy
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