Check It Off

If you are reading this chances are your faith is important to you.  Or you want it to be.  But realistically, is it one more thing to do on the list?

           

            Mass on Sunday –check

            Bible Study on Wednesday- check

            Serve on church committees- check

I am so overscheduled that it is almost impossible not to write faith on the list with a checkmark next to it.  But faith doesn’t fit in a box.  It is organic.  It is never completed.

So then what do you do with it?    You try to slow down and nurture faith.

Heaven forbid we hear “he did not know that the Lord had left him.” (Judges 16:20)  What if that is true of us?   What if God stopped working in your life six months ago and you were too busy to notice?  I dare ask, has He left?  Would you know or care?

This begs the question, how can I prevent this from happening?  There is but one way..to slow down…to stop even.

Fully embrace the God who cannot be managed, checked off, or accomplished.  Be thankful for it..it is probably the only thing in your life that can’t be.

Treat your faith as it deserves…nurture it, feed it, water it and give it space to grow.  Don’t just check it off the list.  Don’t allow God to leave you and it go unnoticed.

We will meet another famous Martha tomorrow.