Interruptions

Don't you just hate it when someone interrupts you when you're in the middle of doing something? I know it can drive me absolutely crazy. At one moment I am fully immersed in whatever it is I'm doing and in the next something has requested my attention and now I've completely lost the focus I had. I'm no longer in the moment of my activity, I am now split between the interruption and the thing I was doing. At times like this I find it really hard to give my fullest attention to either thing and this is when I learn what my heart thinks is more important.

Honestly, I don't think I always choose the best things to be important to me. What I ought to desire isn't always what I do. When I am torn between what I was doing and something good, I really should release the thing I was doing and give the good thing my fullest attention. The way God times things in our lives is intentional. He wants to interrupt us at times so that we can focus on something greater than ourselves, mainly Him. As much as I hate interruptions, I must admit, if it weren't for these inconveniences in life I don't think I'd be who I am or where I am now. You see, in order for me to be saved and to know Jesus my life had to be interrupted. I was surely not heading in the direction of salvation and really had no desire to look in that direction at all until God decided to call me to Himself. I had no real say in my own salvation, it was all God, He is the one who calls us out individually, opens our box, sets us free and then begins the process of changing us. He is also the one who brought me to where I am now. Through His interruptions of my life I changed schools which lead to meeting my wife and started the whole process of finding the job I wanted. The jobs I've had, each one helping me to realize what I wanted to actually do lead me eventually to the job I have now (which is what I want to do and is a wonderful job). Through these changes He has also made it possible for us to find a house in an area that is convenient for us at a price we could afford and with everything we would need. This house finding adventure lead us to having the ability to pay off certain debts so that my wife could stay home and care for our daughter who we found out after buying the house was going to be our next adventure. So in His timing and interruptions our lives were shaped and we learned just how well our God provides for us. Oh how great it is to know that someone much more reliable than me is the actual provider for our family!

So, in rememberance of God's greatest interruption of our lives, our salvation, let us praise God every time we are interrupted today and give these good interruptions our fullest attention so that God can continue to change us, to shape us into the likeness of Christ.