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| Essential 100 -- Out of control | | Date Created: Apr 28, 2005, 07:02 AM |
79 — Thursday April 28 — Acts 16-20
I've just been taken up on an offer I made to assist on another huge and urgent rush rush project at college -- helping to produce extensive documentation about our programmes for our validating university. I'm toying with restructuring my To Do list into categories like "Do Instantly" and "Do More Instantly" and "These are Totally Out of Control". And then the Lord hits me with a reading assignment like this today: 5 chapters of the book of Acts, chapters I've already been over many times before: passages I've written about and taught on extensively so that I don't feel there's a lot more to say. Gosh, I'm tired, Lord.
But I think of Paul, travelling from major city to major city; he must always have been feeling anxieties about urgencies and jobs left undone -- people he's worried about and can't help the way he'd like because it's time to move on. Never quite able to reach his own people -- hardly ever able to speak publically to his own people without that being followed by unambiguous rejection. God came to him with reassurance in 18:9 in the middle of a situation -- well let's face it -- in the middle of a life that will have been so much more exhausting and out of control than yours or mine. |
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