Acts:20:28 (NIV) 28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. …31 So be on your guard! …The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Ac 20:28-31). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
Father has put me exactly where he wants me. It is my responsibility to be faithful over what He has charged me with – be that diligent about the family finances, the nurturing and discipleship of my wife and children, the worship ministry, serving at our church, in the lives of men through FTS and our Men’s bible study, my workplace. All of these places, Father wants me to “… keep watch over…”.
My enemy, however, wants me to be OFF my guard! If he cannot derail me and disqualify me from service entirely, then he wants to distract me in any way possible. That could even be keeping me myopically focused on only ONE of the areas Father has charged me with so the other areas will suffer. Hence Paul’s warning, “So be on your guard!“
Father, I thank you for your daily grace. I thank you for my assignments. I ask now for Your wisdom and attentiveness to each and every task you’ve put before me. I want to always be on guard against the plot of the enemy. Help me prioritize and balance and only do those things that YOU have called me to do. Help me strip away the fluff of my life. Father, examine my heart. Shine your light and expose those areas that I need to let go and get rid of in order to make You the main thing. I pray that I don’t filter my activities on what’s “good” or “not good”, but that I filter my activities on what “my calling” and what’s “not my calling”, so that each and every day, I walk in the midst of your will for my life… moment by moment… decision by decision… action by action… with intentional obedience. Thank you for loving me and trusting me with what you’ve trusted me with. In Jesus’ name I pray… Amen.
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