Show and Tell Friday

I decided you all did not really need to see another science experiment this week! Thats all I have on the camera! We did lots this week. Just nothing out of the norm that would make a great show and tell. I also think my gals are using most of the photos for their show and tell.

With the holidays approaching I thought I would share a biblical view of creating margin in our lives. We are all so very "busy". Each of us so very talented at multitasking and caring for our families. But do we make room for "margin" in our lives? How does the world define Margin? How does God define Margin? I am not an expert and certianly not the best writer. But here are a few facts and thoughts.

Websters Dictionary defines margin as:1. The part of a page that is above, below, or to the side of the printed part. 2.The place where something (such as a piece of land) stops : the edge of something. 3. an extra amount of something (such as time or space) that can be used if it is needed ▪ a safety margin. If you have little or no margin for/of error, it means that you need to be very careful not to make mistakes. If you have a greater margin for/of error, you can be less careful. 4. a measurement of difference.

Gods Idea of Margin

Pursue Contentment

Begin to find margin by examining your motives.

Ecclesiastes 4:4 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Are you striving for more than you need?

Ecclesiastes 4:6 Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

Philippians 4:11–12 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Know your Limitations

Are you doing what the Father would have you to do?

"When I look deeper at the life of Christ, I…notice that there is no indication he worked twenty-hour ministry days.  He went to sleep each night without having healed every disease in Israel – and he apparently slept well.  Neither did he minister to everybody who needed it.  Neither did he visit or teach everybody who needed it.  There were needs that he simply chose not to meet.  Even when Lazarus became sick, Jesus was shockingly slow to mobilize.  I would have had a helicopter there in twenty minutes.  But Jesus delayed for two days.

Is this to imply that he was lazy or didn’t care?  Of course not.  But it is to imply that he understood what it meant to be human…Jesus understood what it meant to prioritize and to balance in light of those limits and how to focus on the truly important.  We can learn a lesson from Jesus – it’s okay to have limits.  It’s okay not to be all things to all people all the time all by ourselves. "(The Overload Syndrome by Richard Swenson  )

 

John 17:4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

Rest

Do we really honor this commandment?

Exodus 20:9–10 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your...

Psalm 127:2 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.

Matthew 11:28–30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!