I've been struggling a lot lately with time management. Between my job at Belk (which I am very grateful for), our mission work and my personal life, there just never seems to be enough time to get it all done. Usually it's my personal life that suffers the most as everything else seems to take precedence over it. Some may think that isn't such a bad thing...but it is when I consider time with God as part of my "personal" time.
Today I woke up earlier then I needed to (but don't let it surprise you...earlier then I needed to was 9am! LOL), so that I could take my time waking up, eat breakfast and spend a few minutes alone with God before my 11am meeting. It's been a nice morning. I feel relaxed, I feel somewhat ready for the rest of the day. The problem is that I'm not really a morning person. So doing this on a daily basis is a problem when I have meetings or have to go into work at an earlier time. I've been conflicted with this for some time now. If you were to read my journal entries from the past few weeks I'm sure you'll find this as a reoccuring theme...there just isn't enough time in the day it seems. (On a side note, I think it's rather ironic that after spending so many years scheduling other people's lives I have issues with scheduling my own life!)
I really want to make spending time with God a higher priority in my life. I've been reading through the book of Isaiah for quite some time now, and in today's reading there is a passage (chapter 50) where Isaiah is talking about how God is his instructor...and I so desire that. So I decided I would make this passage into a prayer ....
God, help me be like Isaiah. Waken me morning by morning, waken my ear to listen like one being taught. Open my ears and do not let me be rebellious. Help me know your word so that I can be sustained and not grow weary.
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