Do You Stuff God in a Drawer?

Do You Stuff God in a Drawer?

booksI kind of, sort of stuffed God in a drawer. My focus was all about finishing a book, speaking, and counseling. All good things, but not the best.

I even devise a way to finish the book. A stick: deadline! A carrot: vacation day!

You’ve probably used the same approach on your kids. You know the drill. Finish your homework, then you may play football. Eat a decent dinner, then dive into Dots. The bible shares a similar idea: reaping and sowing.

What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he’ll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God’s Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life. Galatians 6:7-8, The Message

My stick helped me meet my deadline.  But. . .

God, the Gentleman

I kind of, sort of stuffed God in a drawer. You see, I figured I had, ahem, more important things to do. Like my deadline. A gentleman, God didn’t put up a fuss. In fact, I opened the drawer almost every morning and visited. Then I shut it.

When deadline day came and I hit Send, I felt exhausted. Burned out. Whipped. I assumed the work had zapped me. It didn’t. I was my own undoing. In my desire to meet my self-imposed deadline, I acted selfishly and ignored the people around me and God. (I had stuffed him in a drawer, remember?) Thank God that the next day – when I vacationed quietly at home sweet home – I recognized my true need: Him. I had reaped selfishness and sowed restlessness. My deadline had become my idol.

How ironic that I made such a blunder and listed to a lie – you can do it on your own, Lucy! – as a biblical counselor. Our enemy wants you and me to think I don’t need anyone. 

Among the things I’m learning: I don’t need a deadline. . .

I need a lifeline.

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