Clarity

There are times when it seems as though your life is vacant. Where it seems as though there's nothing happening that is of God. Where it seems as if God is just letting you wander on your own. Then there are the other times.

Those other times are where you struggle to figure out what is from God and what is just life. Times where you are trying to make sure that you are serving God and not yourself or satan. Time is a very valuable thing. It is important to make sure that you are being a good steward of the time that God has given you here on earth. What does this time involve? For some but not all, that time includes a spouse, a family, and sometimes even friends. For all of us as Christians, time should include Church, serving the community, and other ways that you could reach out and show the love of God to the world around you. Although it is easy for me to say all of this, it is not that easy to do in the culture that Americans live in.

This is where we seek clarity from God. We need God to enable us to see what we are supposed to spend our time doing. Sometimes spending a lot of time consumed in "ministry" is not necessarily fulfilling God's will. God wants us to serve him. That is our purpose of being here on earth. We are to glorify God and to go and make disciples. If we are so consumed in our ministry, that we don't get out into the world, then we are not serving God appropriately. I am not saying that we should not be involved in ministry. I'm not saying that we should just be spending all of our time going out and living our lives either.

We are to be in ministry in all of our lives. Not just when we are in church, or at some vocational ministry position. As we go grocery shopping, to a game, or to any other sort of activity in our life we are to be in ministry at all times. Is how you live your life keeping you from living a life of constant ministry? Ask God to provide clarity for what activities in your life you should be doing or should not be doing. Maybe God wants you to live a different life. Maybe he wants you to live in a different location. Maybe he wants you to have a different job.

The key is to live a life where the things you're doing are not keeping you from God and/or those with whom he would like you to minister to. That could mean he does not want you working a job that keeps you from ministering to your spouse or your kids. That could mean that he does not want you going to movies where you will fail to talk to anybody but rather go to a coffee house where you will have many opportunities to talk to people. God has a purpose for every second of your life. Ask him to show you clarity of how to spend the seconds.