It has been quite a while since my last post, as you can tell. I wish I could write something every day, but I just don’t get it done. I started to say,”I just don’t have time”,but I’m not sure that would be honest. We all have the same amount of time.
I am amazed at the amount of work some people are able to get done. I guess I’m geared different. No doubt I’m a lot dumber than a lot of folks. I have to study more than some preachers do. I’ve often wished I had a memory like W.A. Criswell did. He could rattle off history, giving the dates and details, without notes better than anyone I know. Then I think of Spurgeon and the huge amount of writing he did, along with his pastoral duties and in spite of bad health. It amazes me.
I can think of ten times more things to do, than I am able to get done. I just can’t do them. No doubt much of the fault is mine, I could surely plan better or work harded. But some of this “failure” has to do with the way I am constituted. I am me and I can’t do certain things just because somebody can. By the way, it is the same with you. We are all different. God never intended for us to be like someone else.
Not being able to do all we would like, or what others expect from us, can be very frustrating. We can make ourselves miserable trying to do things that God never intended for us to do. Give yourself a break, accept who you are, do the best you can with what you’ve got, and leave the rest with God. His only criteria for judging our service is faithfulness and that requires different things from different people. We aren’t in competition with anyone else. Be yourself and do your duty–that’s all God requires.
Perhaps these words from D. L. Moody will help you–“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do.” Think about it!
