Is It In The Lord, Or Is It In Vain?

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved.
-Psalm 127:1-2

Our lives are so busy, so full.
But, with what?
What is it that fills our days?
Why is it that so many of us just don’t have time?
We need to take an inventory of each thing we do- is it of God, or not?

Simple…but not easy.
Unless God is driving, we are going nowhere.
Much of our stress surely comes from trying to juggle things that we are doing outside of God’s will for us…including some church and charity activities. We think that just because the activity is ‘Godly,’ then God must want us to do it….not necessarily. Of course, we need to serve. But what we do and how much of it we do…should be determined by the Holy Spirit. Imagine if we were only doing what God directed us to do. Would we seem to have a little more time? Be a little [a lot] less stressed? Be more productive? Feel more fulfilled?
Simple…but not easy.

-In Him