Father glorify your name

School, work, friends, enemies, family, money, truck, laundry, books, homework, music, medicine, sports, school, friends, parents, preparation for my future, school, work, friends...

Look at all that stuff. Yeah...fun isn't it? It's exactly what i've been doing. I've spent a great deal of my time just looking at all the stuff that I have on my plate and stressing myself out. Looking...

School has been really really busy so far. It has been a bit of a struggle to organize my time so that I give myself the chance to do well in school, get the hours I need at work, get the rest I need at night, spend the time I should with friends, make sure I take care of all of my responsibilities beyond school work and job related work. It just seems like it has been one huge whirlwind. I'm taking 18 hours: four history courses and a psych course. Last year, my advisor said that the four history courses would be a really really bad idea. She was right!

My booklist between the four classes is a mile long. I prolly will be working on at least one paper every single weekend this semester. I'll definitely be in the middle of at least four different books at a time. And i haven't even thought about my psych course...

Busy, preoccupied... concerned about myself

So where is God in all this? How do I stay focused on what matters when I'm so distracted by work, school and everything else. I've spent most of the semester so far just trying to stay above water. My heart has been troubled. I admit that I feel kind of lost in all this clutter. I've wanted relief but I know it will not come. I was shuffling through my Bible the other day and I came across a verse that really grabbed my perspective and shook it around. I think He wants me to persevere and learn from this. Jesus' example of how to handle any situation really made me think...

"Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father save me from this hour?' No, it was for this reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name."
John 12:27,28

Is my mindset one that desires to glorify God in the everyday monotony? Or am I so caught up in my business that I get to the point of forgetting how God loves me and is very near even when I'm running around like a chicken with its head cut off? Uh...well...for me....*cough*....yeah it would be the latter...

Oswald Chambers kicked me in the face today...

"Worshiping in Everyday Occasions" We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us--it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, "if God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion"? Yet you won't rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God's training ground. If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit . Crises always reveal a person's true character...

...Are you saying, "But I can't be expected to live a sanctified life in my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study right now; besides, my opportunity for battle hasn't come yet, but when it does, of course I will be ready"? No, you will not. If you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God's work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to those around you. God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint."

My Utmost for His Highest -Oswald Chambers


hmm...everyday? Jesus makes me feel uncomfortable...

but it is also He who loves me. I'm not sure that makes stuff more comfortable, but it definitely reminds me of my reason for pursuing Him.

Thank you Jesus Christ for being everything that I cannot. Praise be to Him who lived a blameless life and gave us a perfect example of how to live with a desire to glorify God in all situations.

have a great day guys
-Dave