Our Lives...a breath?

Clearly there are days when "eternity" as a functional concept is FAR FROM US. Let's use a fictitious but very 'real' example:

I wake early in the morning and my thoughts are consumed by how the day is shaping up already - and its only 5:45am. I have this meeting and I have that meeting, I have this deadline that must be met and this other person over here who needs something explained to them... and on and on it goes. In the middle of all these thoughts about my day I am riddled with the fear that something may occur to my job - that I will be out of work. As I navigate away from details of the day and to possible job loss my heart skips a beat. By this point I am sufficiently convinced there is little happening anywhere else because it MUST all be happening to me...

The example here may be a little exaggerated or it may be right on target - you must be honest with yourself. The point is this: all of us struggle knowing God is TRULY in control. What we desperately need is slight dose of perspective. Psalm 39:4-5 "O Lord make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am...surely all mankind stands as a mere breath."

Lord conquer fear in me that I might rightly view ALL OF LIFE from your perspective. Amen

Counsel Me...Please

Name, in your mind, the thing you most struggle with. Think hard, pray if you must and get it centered in on. Now, when a person continues to believe on Christ or comes to belief in Christ... how hard do you think one might try to avoid that struggle? I would venture a guess that it might be REALLY hard.

Now the thing that I have always noticed concerning my struggles are that the harder I try to avoid them, I usually end up doing them. I mean I make plans, get accountability partners, go to church, etc... I still fail(ed). Now, take all that into account, I am saved by the Blood of Jesus, I try really hard to avoid all the things I struggle with, I listen to good christian music, go to church and all that - yet I still struggle.

Counsel me. Talk to me from your experience by commenting on this blog (anonymously if that helps). What do you know to be true... how can I learn from you... should I learn from you... can I offer you something? get the conversation kickin'