We have some awesome volunteers at
The Community Fellowship and The Community Dream Center. One such guy we recently met is a gifted
artist plus he loves to talk and talk and talk.
As he and I were talking about the sermon series I am preaching on
MARGIN, he showed me a couple of things he had drawn.
He had taken the artwork for the series and run some
pieces of it together. When you took a
hard look at it, some of the words ran together. The letters needed margin as they were squeezed
together and running off the page.
Our lives are like that. We squeeze as much as possible into our lives
and end up with nothing to give or share or even no time to rest. My life like many of yours could use a good
dose of margin. We need margin in the
way we look at things, the way we deal with people and in the resources we have.
Then Jesus
said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will
give you rest.”
He lets me
rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams.
I often feel squeezed. Too often I allow myself to get so busy that
I am really squeezed into not having the ability to rest, but that is not God’s
best for me. In the last month God has
used several occasions, including today, to remind me that His desire is for me
to have margin in my life and for you to have margin in your life.
Margin means we have the ability to do more. Margin takes saying no to many good things so
we can say yes to the best things.
Getting margin in our lives is not easy.
It is a hard choice or a series or hard choices. When we are getting squeezed, it is time to choose
to have some margin.
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