It’s easy to become so work focused, so fixed on accomplishing our agenda, that we forget about others, or even forget about God.
DeitrickBonhoeffer wrote:
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. We must not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”
Think about that a minute. Are you so busy, you don’t even allow God to interrupt you? What a mistake it is to become so engrossed in tasks, or strategies, or time efficiency that we miss the opportunities God brings before us.
I’ve adopted this philosophy that in management our job IS interruptions. As leaders, we need to be available for people who need direction, encouragement or friendship. And we can learn a lot from our team members who come up with great ideas.
And let’s not put God out of the picture. A friend in ministry talked about one of the great events in his ministry leadership when God interrupted their agenda and revolutionized their direction.
There are times, as the Psalmist says, that we’re to stop striving and know the HE is God.
2 comments:
Hi Wayne,
I was reading your blog today and re-read this post. I loved it! Certainly resonates with my life.
C.S. Lewis once mentioned how life is not about our jobs. He said life is our interruptions and distractions. We spend our whole lives trying to rid our schedules of these things, but in reality they make up who we are. We try to keep up with the world. We try to fit into the system. This is what can destroy us. It destroys the movement of God. It destroys our churches. It destroys our families. We have this solution for everything. But all God is saying is, “Listen.”
There’s something normal to me about waking up doing my job and going back to sleep at the end of the day. Yet, that’s the most abnormal thing I could do. It goes against the grain of our hearts. It goes against the Spirit trying to work in us. We say to the Spirit, “You have to fit into my schedule. You are not allowed to interrupt my life.”
Anyhow, some thoughts stirring in me. Thanks for inspiring.
Bryan Davidson
http://bryandavidson.org
Hi Wayne,
I was reading your blog today and re-read this post. I loved it! Certainly resonates with my life.
C.S. Lewis once mentioned how life is not about our jobs. He said life is our interruptions and distractions. We spend our whole lives trying to rid our schedules of these things, but in reality they make up who we are. We try to keep up with the world. We try to fit into the system. This is what can destroy us. It destroys the movement of God. It destroys our churches. It destroys our families. We have this solution for everything. But all God is saying is, “Listen.”
There’s something normal to me about waking up doing my job and going back to sleep at the end of the day. Yet, that’s the most abnormal thing I could do. It goes against the grain of our hearts. It goes against the Spirit trying to work in us. We say to the Spirit, “You have to fit into my schedule. You are not allowed to interrupt my life.”
Anyhow, some thoughts stirring in me. Thanks for inspiring.
Bryan Davidson
http://bryandavidson.org
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