What I’ve written below is just as much for my sake as it is for anyone who might stumble upon it. Though most of my friends who are still in school started their semester a few weeks, I just started this week. Though I had the usual pre-first day excitement, I also had this idea that I needed to take a big breath before I was plunged below the water for 4 months. Instead of worrying about all these tasks, I am reminding myself that God can use this to mold me into the woman He would have me to be and to draw me closer to Himself.

Recently in my small group, we read the chapter in Lies Women Believe about priorities. One of the lies that Nancy Leigh DeMoss debunks is along the lines of “I don’t have enough time to do the tasks God has set before me.” This was something that April and I pondered awhile back, but it’s a lesson I need to relearn. It’s easy to think that I don’t have enough time, and I probably don’t. That is, I probably don’t have enough time to do the tasks that I think need to be done. That’s where grace comes in. God doesn’t make me do everything that I try to put on my plate. Instead, He simply asks that I do everything that He would have me to do. On top of that, I can rest assured that God didn’t save me because of what I had done or what He thinks that I would do for His Kingdom. That doesn’t lessen my responsibility to act, but it does lessen the pressure. Now, I need to prayerfully seek God as to how He would have me spend this moment, this hour, this day, and this year.

“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” – Ephesains 2:8-10