"Wisdom calls aloud in the street ..... at the head of the noisy streets she cries out" .... Prov. 1: 20-21 "But whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm." Prov. 1: 33
"Anybody tired or lonely or running out of cope?"
Have you ever wanted to grab the controls of your life (if you could find them) and "fast forward" your struggles, "rewind" your triumphs, "pause" in your happiness, "erase" your mistakes, or just push the "off" button for a few days?
If so, we are related. May I share with you some ordinary daily experiences in hope that this honesty will encourage you to push the "play" button and enjoy life!
Did I hear you say that you too have lost the controls of your life, or did you say that you have so much to do that there's not time to look for them? No, that's not your problem. You have nothing but empty hours, and somehow you yourself are lost in your uselessness. Either way, there is a problem.
Normally, when I lose something it's because there's too much clutter. Could there just possibly be too much clutter in our lives? Are you interested in how to get rid of the clutter and simplify your life so that you can at least locate the controls?
The first place you may need to look is in someone's hands -- your boss, your wife, your husband, your older parents, your children, even your friends. If you are an adult, none of these people should be in control of your life. You are responsible for pushing those buttons that produce happiness and pain in your own life.
Once you locate the controls, remove all but one button. That's the button that brings your life into focus with one word, probably the most important word in the English language, relationships. Until I understood this, my life was always out of balance and needing to be focused.
Once I had a cute little table with two good legs and one cracked leg. My sons, Steve and Stan, would come in and plop their books on the table every day. Every day it would fall. One day I came home from teaching school and my cute little table was gone. To this day, nobody knows what happened to that table, but I do know that it was useless. It was useless because it was built to stand on three legs and only two were working. That table was made to be balanced.
You and I are made to be balanced with three right relationships - a right relationship with ourselves, with others and with God. If one relationship is not right, your life may look good like my table did, but it's as useless as was my table. I think that's what Christ meant in Matthew 22: 37-40. Look it up and see what you think.
