Simplify Your Life

SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE

One of the bigger contributors to the confusion, dissatisfaction, distraction and weariness of our lives is that they are too complicated. Our lives are filled with too much clutter. We are living in a hall of mirrors so that we cannot distinguish between reflections and reality. We are constantly running into walls and in circles without making any progress. Let me make a couple of suggestions.

First, Set Priorities: -- List what must be done in your life. There are many things I want to do that I have left undone for many years. I still haven't finished that children's book I started twenty years ago. I keep meaning to get with my friend Steve to work on our music. There are projects galore around my house that need some attention. But my days are focused on accomplishing one thing. Paul said it is "the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13 ,14). Jesus told Martha that only one thing was necessary. Think about that. There is only ONE necessary thing. If you leave that out nothing will ever be right.

Second, Set Goals: -- Paul said, "Therefore I run in such a way, as not without; I box in such a way, as not beating the air" (1 Cor. 9:26 ). How do you "aim" to accomplish your priority in life? Are there "unnecessary" things that are standing in your way? The Hebrew writer says, "Let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Heb. 12:1). Is your life tangled up and tied down so that you feel that you are getting no where with God? Perhaps it would help to sit down and make a list of your obligations. What are your "goals" this week, this month, this NEW year? Can you accomplish those goals with-out altering your priorities? Are some "goals" clutter?

Understand, not every moment in life has to be momentous. We need times of rest and laughter. But act according to plan and with purpose. You're not building a house just because you are blindly swinging a hammer! You're more likely to put holes in the wall than to accomplish anything worth-while. ------ Mark Mosely via The Jackson Drive Reporter, Jan. 4, 2009 .

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