Today's Devotional

 

January 7, 2008  

                                                                                         

Subject:   My List 

Proverbs 16:9 - "A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps." 

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Talk about dread, stress and worry.  I've been in that state for most of the past weekend, realizing that I finally return to work on Monday morning.  The millions of things that I have to do are simply overwhelming my thought processes.  I can't even begin to enumerate them right now.  As I was having my pity party this morning, I finally lifted up my head enough to say to myself, "you can always pray about it you know."  That sounded simple enough.  Immediately I began to see the list of things to do as a good thing and a way to see how God can be glorified throughout all of those things on "my list."  As I prayed, I realized that it's just "my list." 

At the end of today, I will have done one thing, a few things, many things or depending on the circumstances, nothing.  Regardless of what I have planned to do, I must realize that God is in control.  That fact alone removes much of the anxiety for me concerning all of the things that I need to get done.

Today I pray only that God be glorified in whatever I do today.  So today that really long list of items that I was stressing about getting done has been reduced down to one item.

Things to do list for today 

1. Glorify God

Carlen