well, so much for the first action plan
I'm taking a class through the Vine Institute in Salt Lake City on Saturday mornings. It's called Caring for God's People. I need this class because there are a lot of them I'm starting to care a lot less for than I used to. It seems that God's children have been trying my patience this week.
My first assignment was to identify something and come up with an action plan. I did. I was going to tell y'all about it this morning before church and it's probably a good thing I didn't. Here's why:
God's action plan was to show me that maybe MY actions aren't exactly to HIS plan. I did a lot of pointing fingers at other people last week; this person did this, I don't have a money problem, etc.... and in some certain aspects, a lot of that was true, but the whole problem of wresting with my priorities came down to a finger pointing at me for my own transgressions.
Yup. The sermon was about wrestling with God. My action plan was going to be to talk to everyone that's keeping me from the things I want to do and what they're doing to interfere with my little life and then I had the finger pointed back at me.
Maybe my problem was me pretending my own sins weren't what they were. They were problems, created by other people....and I'd just read this lesson. Apparently I needed to read it, live it, then be reminded of it all in a few days.
My sins are twofold today. One is pride. It's being angry for thinking that someone didn't have a right to talk to me that way. He didn't. But my pride didn't put it like 'nobody deserves to be talked to that way'. In that context, I would have had some moral high ground. My attitude was "who in the hell are you to be talking to ME that way?" That's pride. I acted that way to Miss June when she had something to say to me about money.
My other sin is not being a very wise steward of what God gives me.I wanted to pin my money problems on my house. It costs me a lot and it's a blessing. But it's also my responsibility and as long as she's living with me, she's partly my responsibility. My problem isn't that I don't charge Miss June rent. She helps out with the bills. My problem is that sometimes I need to say no to spending on things I shouldn't, and a re-evaluation of my priorities. I can't help people unless I'm taking care of what I need to. Sometimes circumstances catch us up in things that we don't anticipate, but still.... and I need to remember that.
My action plan was to re-evaluate priorities and talk to people. My new action plan is to re-evaluate my priorities and place them back in their proper order. And I need to pray about them, too. Both are happening today.
Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the world. I did that because of some pride I thought had long since gone. God though can use these little things in life to teach us lessons. I'm learning them.
And I don't have any problems today. I have some confessed sins that I'm going to have God help me with. He will. In the mean time, I'm a bit wiser for the experience.
Hope you're having a blessed day!
Coop
My first assignment was to identify something and come up with an action plan. I did. I was going to tell y'all about it this morning before church and it's probably a good thing I didn't. Here's why:
God's action plan was to show me that maybe MY actions aren't exactly to HIS plan. I did a lot of pointing fingers at other people last week; this person did this, I don't have a money problem, etc.... and in some certain aspects, a lot of that was true, but the whole problem of wresting with my priorities came down to a finger pointing at me for my own transgressions.
Yup. The sermon was about wrestling with God. My action plan was going to be to talk to everyone that's keeping me from the things I want to do and what they're doing to interfere with my little life and then I had the finger pointed back at me.
Maybe my problem was me pretending my own sins weren't what they were. They were problems, created by other people....and I'd just read this lesson. Apparently I needed to read it, live it, then be reminded of it all in a few days.
My sins are twofold today. One is pride. It's being angry for thinking that someone didn't have a right to talk to me that way. He didn't. But my pride didn't put it like 'nobody deserves to be talked to that way'. In that context, I would have had some moral high ground. My attitude was "who in the hell are you to be talking to ME that way?" That's pride. I acted that way to Miss June when she had something to say to me about money.
My other sin is not being a very wise steward of what God gives me.I wanted to pin my money problems on my house. It costs me a lot and it's a blessing. But it's also my responsibility and as long as she's living with me, she's partly my responsibility. My problem isn't that I don't charge Miss June rent. She helps out with the bills. My problem is that sometimes I need to say no to spending on things I shouldn't, and a re-evaluation of my priorities. I can't help people unless I'm taking care of what I need to. Sometimes circumstances catch us up in things that we don't anticipate, but still.... and I need to remember that.
My action plan was to re-evaluate priorities and talk to people. My new action plan is to re-evaluate my priorities and place them back in their proper order. And I need to pray about them, too. Both are happening today.
Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the world. I did that because of some pride I thought had long since gone. God though can use these little things in life to teach us lessons. I'm learning them.
And I don't have any problems today. I have some confessed sins that I'm going to have God help me with. He will. In the mean time, I'm a bit wiser for the experience.
Hope you're having a blessed day!
Coop
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