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My Inspiration: How do you handle the craziness
from TT 174
by TIMES TODAY
How do you handle the craziness?
By William King | Email: kingwilliam189@gmail.com | image courtesy: truewisher.com
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It’s so easy today to allow the busyness of life and all responsibilities to overwhelm us. Add to that checking to our phones, text messages, emails, social media and the news. I encourage you not to be busy but to be productive. If you’re going to see your dreams and desires come to pass, you can’t just let everything occupy your time.
Busyness does not equal productivity. You don’t want to wear busyness as an important attribute in your life. You want to wear fruitfulness, productiveness. You want your life to be ordered, getting the right things done at the right time. If anyone was overwhelmed with busyness, it was Moses.
Remember that he was God’s man to lead two million Israelites toward the Promised land. He was responsible to hear from God for them and to know where they were to go. On top of that, from morning to evening the people came to him to solve their problems and be the judge of their disputes.
In the midst of this craziness, Moses prayed this important prayer: “Teach us to number our days that we can gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). I can hear the cry of his heart, “God, teach me and show me how to order and prioritize my day.” Moses wanted to see people’s dreams come to pass.
The answer to Moses’ prayer came one day when his father-in-law, Jethro, observed that Moses was wearing himself out as he tried to solve everyone else’s problems. Jethro said, “You need to set up a system of godly men to help you meet the needs of the people.”
He had to clear the clutter out and rearrange his life priorities. Perhaps you feel a little bit like Moses. Everybody’s asking you for things and you need to fix all the problems. You feel overwhelmed. You need to put things on pause and pray Moses’ prayer. He has ideas to make your life easier.