What to do

Over the last few weeks I have found my life running myself. The things on the “to do” list have become animated and have taken over the “what I should do.” The purpose driven life is more like the “what you need to do next” life. I feel like many, many people know what I am talking about.
When this happens our/my identity can get lost. We can start to feel, even come to believe emotionally that we have no control over our life. We can start to feel like our life is “worthless”, we feel less and less like we are worth anything.
The real answer to this situation is to hang on to the Lord. The word “Lord” means “Master” and when everyone and everything else desires to rule your life, you can turn to the foundation of all life. But just turning to God is not enough. I know that many will tell you that it is, but it is not. You must turn to God and then cling to Him. The clinging is a spiritual, emotional and even physical bound. Clinging to the Master does not mean you get the life you desire back, but you get the one you desire more than life back. Once you have and keep in touch (clinging) with the Lord, everyone and everything else is reduced to everything else. Hanging on to God is a great focus, endeavor and purpose.
Right now in my life I have a Promise Keepers conference to recruit people of prayer for. I think I have 4-5 of the 80 needed. I have the Peoria Prayer Center data base to rebuild, office work to do and newsletters to write. I also have my Dad to look after, two trips to make this week, lawns to mow, a new church remolding space to work on and preparations for the Global Bridegroom Fast and The Call. Added to this is my desire to write and produce prayer helps and others discipleship tools. I have a cartoon prayer manual setting on the shelf as well as 12 children’s lessons to write.
All this stuff, great stuff cannot become my identity or tools of evaluation. Many people, who do not selfishly hide themselves away, find themselves with endless places of help, service and labor. If we truly love our neighbor as our selves we are going to go through times of great labor and exhaustion. If you love others you will encounter some very long, if not unending days. This is a part of “normal Christianity.” Please, please do not surrender to the “take care of yourself”, “protect you time and family”, “you deserve time to yourself” mentality. If you cling to keep this life, you will have no hands to cling to Him, who is all of life. It is true that you must lose your life not to find life eternal. Many who are teaching on this subject have not yet come to know what it truly means. It is not something that you are willing to do. It is in fact something that you must actually do.
What to do? Cling!