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May Be Maybe

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I don’t know about you, but this has been a busy month!  May just kinda surprised me with how busy it got – and now June is almost here.  I was talking to someone about this yesterday, and she said, “May is kind of like December – lots of extra things you have to do.”  I had never thought of that before, but I think it is true – from graduations to sports, Mother’s Day to Memorial Day, spring cleaning to vacation planning – May can be a busy month!  And busy can be bad.

The Bible tells us to make the most of every opportunity (Ephesians 5:16), literally “redeeming the time.”  Sometimes it feels like I am not making the most of my time – I am just busy as a bee.  I can be flying from project to project, meeting to meeting, activity to activity – and never know really where I am going.  I can get so busy that I lose connection with my Leader.  I have found that to stay connected to Him means I move at His pace.  Strangely, though He is in charge of saving the world, I find that He is usually telling me to slow down, to hear Him, to soak up my time with Him.  Jesus does not tell me to be lazy – but to work hard with Him, rest in Him, and move at His pace.

Lately I have been hearing the Lord really call me to soak up time with Him.  Jesus is not just fuel for life; Jesus is the goal of life. I don’t just spend time with Jesus so that I can help others or have my activities – that is using my relationship with Him for my own goals.  Jesus is the goal.  I want to know Him and be filled with His love.  Yes that love will overflow to others, yes He is my fuel and my source of encouragement – but I want to love Him even if there would be no “payoff” or result – just Him.

I have found, in the past, that when Jesus is calling me to slow down and be closer to Him that it usually means a storm is coming in my life.  If I ignore the call it is to my own peril and harm.  I don’t know if a storm is coming, but I want to hear His whisper, and heed His loving call.  This May has been crazy, but I am trying to learn a lesson: to move at His rhythm and pace, and experience His way of life, and live for the joy of loving Him and being loved by Him, the Author of Love.

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