A friend of mine brought up the subject of availability in our lives. By asking the following
Relationship with Jesus?
Praying for others?
He then went on to say that balance could run parallel with this.
Making ourselves available, but also balancing the different pieces.
Finding that balance of availability is having to say no to something and have an even out the sea saw.
This got me to thinking and this is what the Lord showed:
Availability comes from priority. Our priorities are actually what we wind up balancing out and being available for. What ever is the higher priority is what we will make ourselves available for and what is less of a priority we will be less available for.
We need to make sure that we first set our priorities properly, then our availability will follow which is the only way the sea saw can be balanced. Wrong order of priorities equals uneven sea saw which causes conflict and stress.
I have heard someone make the point that saying you don’t have enough time is nothing but an excuse because you have all the time in the world. Meaning that each of us, regardless of income or ethnicity, every day has all the time there is in that day, 24 hours, the real problem is that we don’t prioritize that time properly.
For me this subject of availability comes back to Matt 6:33. Seek First the Kingdom and His righteousness and all these things are added.
As I prioritize God first my availability to Him and then everything else opens up. When we prioritize anything else first our availability to God and everything else gets hectic and stressful. The reason is that what we prioritize first is what we worship, worship is about what we offer sacrifice to and for, hence making it the ultimate authority for our life. The ultimate authority in our life then is responsible for having power over our life and in our life. God isn’t going to over rule our choice. He is more than willing to let the ultimate authority that we have chosen instead of Him to be the power that gets us through the day which is terrifying because nothing but God has the power to get us through everything that can pop up in our day.
We reveal our priorities through what we make ourselves available for.
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