One way to measure our walk is to see the place that GOD Almighty has in our lives.
A time management expert pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of his students. He produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, in the jar. When no more rocks would fit inside he asked, "Is the jar full?"
Everyone in the class said, "Yes." He said, "Really?" He reached under the table, pulled out a bucket of gravel, dumped in some gravel, and shook the jar, causing the pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. Again, he asked, "Is the jar full?"
"Probably not," one of the class answered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table, brought out a bucket of sand, and started dumping the sand into the jar. It went into the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked, "Is the jar full?"
"No!" the class shouted. Again, he answered, "Good!" He grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?"
One student said, "The point is that no matter how full your schedule is, if you really try hard you can always fit some more things in!"
"No," the expert said, "that's not the point. The point of this illustration is that if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. If you fill your life with lesser things, you'll never have the time you need to spend on the big, really important stuff (the 'big rocks')."
And so it is in our walk as a Child of GOD. If our walk is something that we work on after everything else has been taken care of, there is little hope that we will ever be pleasing & acceptable unto HIM.
GOD Almighty must be number one on our list of priorities and our schedules should be worked around HIM, not the other way around. See this as a vital part of learning to live for HIM, and we could
all be well on our way!
Is GOD Almighty the “big rocks” in your life? Will HE be? Pray with me...
Dear FATHER GOD, I'm sorry I've put so many things ahead of YOU and of becoming what YOU Created me to be. Please forgive me and grant that I may make my likeness to YOUR Son, YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST, in making YOUR Ways and my assignment the priority in my life. Oh FATHER, YOU sent YOUR only begotten Son to become the ransom that I might be Holy; please help me walk in The Way so I may be in a right relationship with YOU. Please grant me the Courage and Perseverance to press on and press forward with YOU as my top priority! I Pray in The Mighty Name of YOUR Son, YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. Amen.
Read Psalm 90:1-17
A time management expert pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed Mason jar and set it on the table in front of his students. He produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, in the jar. When no more rocks would fit inside he asked, "Is the jar full?"
Everyone in the class said, "Yes." He said, "Really?" He reached under the table, pulled out a bucket of gravel, dumped in some gravel, and shook the jar, causing the pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. Again, he asked, "Is the jar full?"
"Probably not," one of the class answered. "Good!" he replied. He reached under the table, brought out a bucket of sand, and started dumping the sand into the jar. It went into the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked, "Is the jar full?"
"No!" the class shouted. Again, he answered, "Good!" He grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?"
One student said, "The point is that no matter how full your schedule is, if you really try hard you can always fit some more things in!"
"No," the expert said, "that's not the point. The point of this illustration is that if you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. If you fill your life with lesser things, you'll never have the time you need to spend on the big, really important stuff (the 'big rocks')."
And so it is in our walk as a Child of GOD. If our walk is something that we work on after everything else has been taken care of, there is little hope that we will ever be pleasing & acceptable unto HIM.
GOD Almighty must be number one on our list of priorities and our schedules should be worked around HIM, not the other way around. See this as a vital part of learning to live for HIM, and we could
all be well on our way!
Is GOD Almighty the “big rocks” in your life? Will HE be? Pray with me...
Dear FATHER GOD, I'm sorry I've put so many things ahead of YOU and of becoming what YOU Created me to be. Please forgive me and grant that I may make my likeness to YOUR Son, YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST, in making YOUR Ways and my assignment the priority in my life. Oh FATHER, YOU sent YOUR only begotten Son to become the ransom that I might be Holy; please help me walk in The Way so I may be in a right relationship with YOU. Please grant me the Courage and Perseverance to press on and press forward with YOU as my top priority! I Pray in The Mighty Name of YOUR Son, YESHUA, JESUS The CHRIST. Amen.
Read Psalm 90:1-17