Tuesday Is My Monday
November 13th, 2007 Posted in A Sense of CallIt’s Tuesday morning. After a busy Sunday preaching and relating to people I can’t really function very well in a pastoral role on Monday, so Monday is to me what Saturday is to most people - my day off. That makes my Tuesday like most people’s Monday, the first day back to work.
My work day begins with some early morning writing. It was especially tough this morning to sit down at the computer and hammer out words, because in yesterday’s e-mail I received a rejection note from a publisher concerning a book idea I had proposed to him.
It’s tough to keep at something when you don’t get the positive reinforcement you feel you really need. I find at such times (like this morning) that I simply need to do what I need to do because I feel I’m called to do it. The sense of call is not from within myself in the strict sense of what “within myself” usually means. I can’t count on just my own determination and stubbornness. I need to believe that it is God who’s put this agenda to write before me. I need a sense of His call. That’s what made me climb out of bed to get back at it this morning.
6 Responses to “Tuesday Is My Monday”
By Rachel on Nov 14, 2007
“I need a sense of His call. That’s what made me climb out of bed to get back at it this morning.” If someone has figured out God’s call, that is a blessing! I too have mornings where I can’t seem to get up and keep going, and days where my job really doesn’t seem like “God’s call.” I think the challenge is for people to live like their job/career/day is God’s call, and see where God leads them. I have been fortunate to understand God’s call a few times, but I believe I confuse God’s call to my life’s goals/agenda.
This will be my prayer today, “God, give me a sense of your call.” I will try to pay attention!
By Dave Claassen on Nov 14, 2007
Rachel,
I agree, it’s easy to confuse our own goals/agenda, desires, etc, with God’s call. No easy solution here, other than being steeped in His Word and being in close and honest fellowship with one or more fellow followers of His who can help us sort things out.
Dave
By kjensen6 on Nov 14, 2007
Yesterday, in my morning prayers, I told God my day was His. I hadn’t done that in a while, and I really don’t know why. I was amazed at the day I had. My husband called me and told me what a great day he was having. It was all because I gave God total control over my day, my life, my everything. It felt great! I felt a renewed sense of what God has called me to do, and all because I did the most simple thing of letting go of my “control freak” ways, and letting him take over. It’s such a simple thing to do, yet it’s so hard for me to let go. From now on, I’m going to remember how great yesterday felt, and I’m going to let God guide my day.
By Dave Claassen on Nov 15, 2007
It’s so key, isn’t it, to let God have control over us and over our day (and night). After all, we often call Jesus “Lord.” It basically means “boss” or the one in control. Then I recall Jesus’own prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane to the Havenly Father. “Not my will but Your will be done.” Keeping God in charge, that is the key, isn’t it!
Dave
By Marcena on Nov 15, 2007
I am thanking God for your ministry and your blog, Pastor Dave. I visited the church a while back with my co-worker and sister in Christ, Karin. I am in transition seeking a new church “home”, letting God lead me and my four kids (well, two are BIG kids now, baby adults as I call them). I am hoping to make it out this Sunday. Wow, as I think about what a “church home” means, it has to be like a family home…a place you really, really want to be at, a place where you can go and show your true colors, who God has made you to be.
Your blog is inspiring and your website awesome. God Bless.
By Dave Claassen on Nov 15, 2007
Thanks for writing, Marcena. Wow! Sounds like you have your hands full with a job and four kids. Even BIG kids are work for we parents. I have two adult children and I think I pray more earnestly for them now then when they were kids. I guess back then I thought I could take care of them. Now I have to leave that largely in the Lord’s hands. May God keep lead you as you seek to give parental guidanc to your children.
Dave