Have you ever just felt as though there were things lurking about, unseen, thieving things?  Time stealers! Thieves! Without our even noticing, they come in and loot our days!  They walk off with our quiet moments and our still hours and our joyous and peace-inducing visits to the throne room of God.  Little buggers are messing up my spiritual growth!

So much happens right under our noses and we don’t even see it happening.  We have great intentions and then, somehow, completely unexplained, we find ourselves without the time to act on our grand gestures.  How does this keep happening and why does it take so long for me to see that it is?

Identify the little thieves.  Call them what they are; indulgences or selfish moments, idols or weaknesses, demands, obligations or oversights, call them what they are and oust them!  We all have the same amount of time in our days.  And God has deemed that it is enough.

“Unlike your boss, God has never given anyone too much to do.  If we find ourselves in that position, it is not God’s fault…God has given each of us a day with the same amount of time, and it is enough to do what God wants us to do.”                                                                                             John Ortberg

If we run out of time, we must have added in a few things that weren’t “what God wants us to do.”  Be sure that the things that get left off of your to-do list today aren’t the ones that God actually intended for you to get done.

Be still and know that I am God.                                                                                                                                                                          Psalm 46:10

Slow down.  For just a minute today if it can’t be more, slow down.  Close your eyes, clear your mind, picture the scene that you were made to occupy.  Your rightful place is at the feet of the God who made you, find yourself there sometime today.