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Hiiii friends!!!
I want to talk about something I’ve been recognizing in myself lately, and I have a feeling I’m not the only one. In fact, I know I am not the only one because as I started to marinate on this and bring it up in conversations, my friends quickly empathized and agreed that many of us.
Somewhere along the way, I think we have started treating available capacity like an invitation to fill it.
If I have a free afternoon, surely there’s something productive I could do with it. If I have the ability to help someone, shouldn’t I? If an opportunity is good, why wouldn’t I take it? And if I used to be able to juggle all of these things, shouldn’t I be able to figure out how to do it again?
It’s almost like having room for something automatically means that room needs to be occupied. And the strange thing is, I can do this with really GOOD things. Work I love. People I care about. Opportunities I’m grateful for. Responsibilities I genuinely want to steward well. However, I’ve been wondering whether I’ve confused being faithful with being fully utilized??? Those are not necessarily the same thing.
Just because there is room for something in my life doesn’t mean God intended for it to live there.
In a world that constantly encourages us to optimize, expand, improve, and make the most of every available minute, margin is not allowed. Empty space on our calendar actually makes us feel uncomfortable sometimes. But what if some of the space we’re so eager to fill is actually space God wants us to protect? Not because He’s calling us to do nothing, but because He’s forming something in us that requires more than our ability to accomplish things.
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