Fill your life with meaningful activities

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” Colossians 3:23 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Fill your life with meaningful activities”

This morning, we will continue our thinking from yesterday about how it is that sometimes our jobs can be too small for our spirit. When author Studs Terkel wrote that line he was referring to the fact that most jobs do not add sufficient meaning and fulfillment to our lives and consequently, our spirit is left yearning for something more meaningful. So, what to do? Let me offer you three suggestions that might help:

First, approach your job in the spirit of Colossians 3:23. Your real boss is Jesus and you are doing your job to please Him – as an act of service to Him. Whatever your job is, you can honor the Lord by how you perform it. Christians should always be the best employees in any workplace. Also, you can use your job as a platform for ministry – to bless others in the name of Jesus. Doing this will add great meaning to your work and it will add to your sense of fulfillment.

Second, if don’t like your job, or worse, if it seems oppressive and soul-crushing, then begin preparing yourself for something new and better. There’s an old rule-of-thumb that says, “Decide what you love to do then get someone to pay you for doing it.” I’m fortunate to have a job like that. I love being a pastor, preacher, teacher, and writer. I find my work rewarding, fulfilling, and spiritually rich. My life would be diminished if I couldn’t do this. My wife, Aimee, has a similar situation. She is a licensed clinical therapist in a Christian counseling center. She loves helping people and hopes to continue doing so for many years to come. If you don’t love your work, then find a job that you will love. An excellent resource to help you prayerfully think through this would be Bob Buford’s excellent book, “Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance.” It’s all about making a midlife course correction.

A third option is to stick with your current job – being the best employee you can be and serving the Lord in the process, and then fill the rest of your life with meaningful activities that you find rewarding and fulfilling. There’s a lot to be said for simply earning your living in an honest profession, providing for yourself and your family, and then filling the rest of your life with things like being an exceptional spouse, parent, neighbor, and friend; along with service in church ministry and community organizations and activities like that. All of that adds meaning and significance to your life.  

Whether you are a butcher, baker, or candlestick maker; a doctor, a lawyer, or a stay-at-home mom; your life can be filled with many meaningful activities that honor God, bless others, and give you a sense of fulfillment. But what if you are retired and don’t have a job? Tomorrow I will have some thoughts to share with you about making the most of that season of your life too.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Is your job too small for your spirit?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?” Ecclesiastes 1:3 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Is your job too small for your spirit?”

The primary purpose the writer of the book of Ecclesiastes sought to achieve was to get us to consider if all our toil in life, along with our relentless pursuit of accumulating wealth and possessions, is really the thing that will gain for us a rewarding and fulfilling life. The book is twelve long chapters of cynicism, complaint, and criticism, interwoven with pearls of wisdom and thought-provoking insights.

The grand conclusion of it all however, when taken in its totality, is that the best life any person can have is a balanced life lived under the Lordship of God. As chapter three explains, there is an appropriate season and time for every activity under heaven.

One of the lessons we should learn from Ecclesiastes is the futility of placing too much importance on our jobs. That’s the point Solomon was making in verse 1:3 (above). Now, let me be quick to say that jobs are important and they are Biblical. It was God’s idea for us to work and to be productive in society, and the Bible commands us to do so. But many of us place too much emphasis on work, to the point that the rest of life gets out of balance.

Worse still, many of us have jobs that we dislike and which are unfulfilling. That’s tragic because we spend so much of our time (so much of our life) at work. In 1974 the researcher and author Studs Terkel published a groundbreaking book entitled “Working”. It was a series of interviews with more than 100 workers in different fields. The purpose of the research was to discover how satisfied, or dissatisfied, the average American worker is with his or her job.

Terkel reported, “For many, there is discontent. The blue-collar blues is no more bitterly sung than the white-collar moan. “I’m a machine” says the spot-welder. “I’m caged,” says the bank teller, and echoes the hotel clerk. “I’m a mule,” says the steelworker. “A monkey can do what I do,” says the receptionist. “I’m less than a farm implement,” says the migrant worker. “I’m an object,” says the high-fashion model.”

Terkel concluded, “Most of us … have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.” A job by itself (no matter how important or successful), is not the most meaningful measure of a person’s life. There must be other things in life that are more important to us and more meaningful. But the problem has only gotten worse in the fifty years sense that book was published. Much worse.

In terms of selfcare, if such a large portion of life is taken up by an activity that creates distress rather than fulfillment, what kind of quality of life can we expect a person to have? And what can be done about it? The good news is that there are some options, and we will discuss three of them tomorrow.

God bless,
Pastor Jim   

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Are you working at your play?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy the good life. It is also the gift of God whenever anyone eats, drinks, and enjoys all his efforts.” Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Are you working at your play?”

Have you ever come back from a vacation exhausted, feeling like you need a vacation after your vacation? I’m sure we’ve all had that experience. We are so eager to squeeze as much “fun” into our vacation that we end up rolling from one activity to another until finally, we’re exhausted from playing and vacation time was not restful at all.

Sometimes we work at our play – to the point that play leaves us as exhausted and worn out as does our work. Social commentator Gordon Dahl once wrote, “In truth, for millions of Americans – hard-working Americans – leisure has come to mean little more than an ever more furious orgy of consumption. Whatever energies are left after working are spent in pursuing pleasure with the help of an endless array of goods and service … It offers men the choice of either working themselves to death or consuming themselves to death – or both.”

What Dahl was referring to is our tendency to work too hard, followed by our tendency to play to hard, all of which, when added together, leaves us exhausted, drained, and unhappy with life. Once your exhausting vacation is over you now get to go back to your exhausting job.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not arguing against vigorous activity as a form of recreation. I love whitewater kayaking, 10-mile hikes, long rides on my mountain bike, open-ocean swims, and much more. Such activities are good for us. They leave us tired but content and feeling good – if we don’t overdo it. Too much of that, especially strung together activity after activity, becomes work and leaves us exhausted rather than rested.

The picture Solomon paints for us in Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 is of the people of God engaging in leisurely (unhurried and relaxing) fun activities and doing so with God’s blessing. We will think more about this in the days to come but for now, I encourage you to do something today that relaxes you physically and which also feeds your soul.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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We need a theology of play

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven … a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.” Ecclesiastes 3:1;4 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “We need a theology of play”

The word theology refers to the study of God and His relation to the world – what is true about Him, how we interact with Him, and how we practice our faith.

The term theology can be used in a broad sense to describe our complete understanding of our faith and practice, but it also applies in a more narrow and focused manner to individual beliefs and practices. Therefore, we have a theology of worship, and a theology of prayer, study, stewardship, service, etc. We also have a theology of work, in that we are to approach our labor as ordained by God and ultimately as an act of service to Him.

In that vein, we should also have a theology of play. As Solomon teaches in Ecclesiastes chapter three there is a God-ordained time for everything under heaven. That would include our times of recreation and play. But do we think of our times of recreation and play as being ordained by God and as a gift from Him? Usually not. In fact, I submit that we are more likely to feel a little guilty about such times, as if we’re stealing time from other more important things and neglecting higher priorities to goof-off on the golf course or lake.

In his wonderful little book “The Christian at Play” Dr. Robert Johnson urges Christians to develop a theology to govern our times of playing and recreation. He maintains that it was God’s idea for us to carve out time for play and recreation and that doing so is a necessary element in maintaining a healthy life overall. The human person is a complex composite of the physical, mental/emotional, and the spiritual and we must be healthy in all those ways if we are to be living our best life – balanced and thriving. Times of play and recreation are an important part of that mix and therefore in the Bible, God gives us permission to play and we see examples of His people doing exactly that.

In the days to come we will consider what a personal theology of play would look like in actual practice. In the meantime, I encourage you to allow yourself some time today to do something fun.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Jesus was joyful and we should be too

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.” John 15:11 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Jesus was joyful and we should be too”

For more than twenty-five years I have had a picture hanging on the wall in my office of Jesus laughing (Aimee and I also have a copy of it on the wall in our living room). It’s my favorite picture of Jesus. His head is back, He has a broad smile and a look of delight on His face, and He is clearly letting loose with a deep belly laugh. This is more than just a grin and a chuckle. This is more like holding-your-sides and trying not to pee your pants robust laughter.

And I love it! As I gaze at that picture (with a grin on my own face), I wonder if Jesus was really like that. Did He laugh like that? Did He have moments (perhaps frequent moments) when He was so thoroughly enjoying Himself that He just let loose with howls of laughter? Yes. I believe He did.

In John 15:11 Jesus told us that one of His objectives was to instill in us the joy that He Himself experienced. But I think when we read that statement, we might over-spiritualize it. In our quest to be pious we conclude that Jesus must have been referring to a kind of reverent, button-down, dignified, stained-glass joy (little more than a small smile and a nod of approval.) But I’m not buying that.

Have you ever been to a Jewish wedding, or perhaps seen one depicted in a movie? It’s a riot. It’s loud and boisterous with fast music, clapping, singing, dancing, laughing, feasting, and wine. Lot’s of wine. Jesus went to such weddings. John chapter two tells us so. And get this, Jesus made the wine. More than 100 gallons of it, and the passage tells us that it was deemed by the master of ceremonies to be the finest of wines. The good stuff.

This is a devotional not a wine commercial and my only point is that Jesus was a fun-loving person and as His followers, we should be too. We need light-hearted attitudes about life and we need what author Robert Johnson once referred to as “a theology of play.”

In terms of selfcare, this is important. Therefore, we will spend the next several days exploring this idea of developing a personal theology of play. In the meantime, I encourage you to spend some time thinking about Jesus as joyful and playful, and then let His joy be your joy.

God bless,
Pastor Jim    

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Live your best life!

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “How happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk according to the Lord’s instruction! Happy are those who keep his decrees and seek him with all their heart.” Psalm 119:1-2 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Live your best life!”

What’s the secret to living your best life ever? The secret is that it’s not a secret. Through the writer of Psalm 119 God told us plainly almost three thousand years ago that we would find our best life ever if we study His commands and keep them.

God has a good and perfect plan for your life. Jeremiah 29:11-14 assures us of this: “For I know the plans I have for you – this is the Lord’s declaration – plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when your search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you …”

That is exactly what the Psalmist was expressing in Psalm 119:1-2. Make the effort to know and understand and apply the principles for living found in the Word of God. Live by it. Then you will discover your best life ever. The fact is that the best life any of us will ever have is the one lived in the center of God’s will. No matter what else you accomplish in life, no matter how much wealth and possessions you accumulate, no matter how much the world sings your praises and honors you with accolades, no life will be as good as the life you could have had and can have living in the center of God’s will for you.

You will also be your most effective in life when you are in the center of God’s will – living by the direction of and in the power of the Holy Spirit who lives in you. The Spirit will make you strong, tough, and resilient as you tackle the many challenges life throws at you.

Let me say it again: The secret to living your best life ever is that it isn’t a secret. God has made it plain. Seek Him with all your heart. Study His Word. Live by it. Then enjoy life in the center of His will.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Our nation needs Jesus

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping your word. I have sought you will all my heart; don’t let me wander from your commands. Psalm 119:9-10 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Our nation needs Jesus”

Today is the 4th of July. Independence Day. It’s the day we celebrate America and all that our nation stands for. We all want the best for our country, but what is that? What would be most helpful for our nation at this time in our history? The answer is that we need more citizens who are faithful followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and who live according to Biblical principles.

In recent days in this devotional series, we have been thinking about priorities, focus, simplicity, and even downsizing for selfcare and to achieve a better quality of life. But how do we get there from here? I mean, we live in a loud, chaotic, demanding world filled with responsibilities, pressures, distractions, and many competing demands for our time and attention. How do we filter through all of that, distill it, eliminate the superfluous and unhelpful, and somehow achieve a better quality of life for ourselves, our families, our communities, and our nation?

Recently I came across an interesting observation about the nation of Israel in Old Testament times that seems to speak about our society as well. It was from the editors of the “Experiencing God Study Bible” and it was part of the introduction to the book of Ezra. Here’s what they observed about Israel in those days:

“About 458 B.C, almost a century after the first return from Babylonian exile, Israel looked for identity and hope as they struggled with worship without meaning, daily living without focus, and a nation without identity, ruled by foreigners. Ezra called God’s people to find meaning and hope in renewed worship, dedication to obey God’s commandments, and separation from pagan influences. The book of Ezra seeks to encourage an indifferent community of God to find new life in their worship of God and obedience to His word, as they forged a unique identity as the people of God.”

That’s pretty good advice for us too. As Christians, many of us are lost in a world of noise and distraction, and it is killing us. It is draining away our spiritual vitality and leaving us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually empty. But the answer for us is the same as it was for them: Return to God. As the editors also noted, “The world lures God’s people into doing things the world’s ways rather than God’s. The Bible presents God’s unchanging standard for his people.”

That’s it right there. The Bible, along with a vibrant practice of our faith, is our true north. That’s what the Psalmist meant in Psalm 119:9-10 and that is what will keep us headed in the right direction rather than getting lost in a confusing and dangerous world.

Our nation needs to return to Biblical principles, but that must start with you and with me.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Sink deeply into your relationship with God

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you …” Jeremiah 29:13-14 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Sink deeply into your relationship with God”

Over the next several days I want to share a personal story with you about my own decades-long journey of pursuing depth over superficiality in all of life. Please note that I do not claim to have arrived or to be a particularly deep person. Just like you, I am very much a work in progress. Also, this journey has been an evolution that has progressively unfolded over the course of decades, and it is still unfolding today.  

I’m simply sharing with you part of my journey, just as Chuck Swindoll shared about his pursuit of depth in his great little book, “Intimacy with God.” In fact, it was Chuck’s book that inspired my own pursuit of depth over superficiality – and maybe something in my story will be helpful to you just as his was for me.

After reading Chuck’s book, I realized I had to begin with God. My personal relationship with God must be deep and rich. Then, everything else will flow from that. So, I resolved to engage in serious discipleship by means of daily Bible study, lots of prayer, reading many good Christian books, spending time with other Christians more advanced in the faith than myself, full involvement in the life of my church, and lots of contemplative and reflective time with God.

This is what God was saying to us in Jeremiah 29:13-14. If you will put the time and effort into seeking Him, He will be found by you. And the more you seek Him, the more of Him you will discover.

King David was described by God in 1 Samuel 13:14 as being “a man after My own heart.” That was David’s legacy – he sought God in deep ways. About that personal experience David told the rest of us in Psalm 34:8, “Taste and see that the Lord is good. How happy is the person who takes refuge in him!”

David was saying that the more you experience of God, the more of Him you will want. He found that to be true in his own life, and he was certain we would find it to be true as well. This is the starting place for a life of depth rather than superficiality – seek God with all your heart. Be deep in Him. All the rest of life will then flow from that. This is the most important and helpful thing you can do in terms of selfcare: sink deeply into your relationship with God.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Rest, relax, and trust God

Good morning everyone,Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul.” Psalm 23:1-3 (NIV)

Our thought for today: “Rest, relax, and trust God”

I love the way King David began Psalm 23 – with words of rest and restoration. God is his shepherd and the first thing David tells us about his shepherd is that the shepherd leads him to rest. It’s a tranquil picture of calmness and serenity.

But the point David makes first, and as a prelude to the part about resting, is that God as the shepherd is also the provider, therefore, “I shall not be in want” and therefore “I can simply lie down in green pastures and rest beside quiet waters as my soul is restored. In other words, “God has this.” And since He does, David can slow down and he can even stop for a while.

Interestingly, in the Bible Jesus is never depicted as being in a hurry. Also, there are no instances of Him urging His disciples or us to be in a hurry either. Instead, as Psalm 23 so beautifully depicts, we are to follow Him, at His pace, and trust that when we are resting, He is still protecting and providing.

But this is a tough concept for many of us to believe and embrace. We believe we have so much to do that we can’t stop nor can we even slow down. Instead, we have to rush to get this thing done so we can then rush to get the next thing done. As author and pastor John Ortberg playfully wrote, many of us act as if the Psalm says, “The Lord is my shepherd, therefore I gotta run faster.” But good shepherds don’t run. They walk and they lead their sheep at a relaxed pace. That’s what Jesus does with us and it’s what David was depicting in the beginning verses of Psalm 23.

We need to slow down. We live life at a frantic pace that isn’t good for us (or for those around us). Instead, we need to be intentional about choosing a simpler, slower, unhurried life that nourishes our soul rather than drains it, and which allows us to fully focus on the things in life that truly matter most.

In the days to come, I will share with you some of the very wise insights contained in John Mark Comer’s excellent book, “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.” For now, as written by John Ortberg in the introduction to that book, “Take a deep breath. Put your cell phone away. Let your heart slow down. Let God take care of the world.”

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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Maybe you need to downsize and simplify

Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.” 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “Maybe you should downsize and simplify”
 
In recent days we have been considering the idea that good selfcare often involves narrowing our focus for the purpose of going deep in all areas of life. Deep rather than wide, intimate rather than impersonal. I have introduced you to two great little books that will help in that effort, Chuck Swindoll’s “Intimacy with God” and John Mark Comer’s “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.” And I have been sharing a bit of my personal story with you regarding my own decades-long effort to bring about quality over quantity in my own life.
 
Today I will conclude that part of our study by sharing one more important evolution that needed to take place in my own life. It involved an intentional decision made more than a decade ago by my wife Linda (who is now in heaven) and myself regarding the need to downsize and simplify our lives. We realized we owned far too much stuff (most of which we didn’t use) and our lives were entirely too busy (filled with too many activities and responsibilities). We owned a large house that was  way too much living space for only two people, on a large piece of property that required a lot of upkeep. So, we sold that house and bought a home less than half the size of what we had, on a smaller piece of property that required much less upkeep.
 
We also sold or gave away approximately 75% of our possessions – most of which were going unused and sitting in storage anyway. Professionally, I narrowed my focus to being a pastor, a writer, and my jail/prison ministry, and I resigned from all other boards, committees, and ministry activities. In my personal life my focus narrowed to mostly my wife, my immediate family, and a circle of close friends.
 
It was amazing how much space that created in my life. Head-space, for one thing, but also, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually I discovered how much more relaxed and peaceful my entire life became. My life still included much meaningful service for the kingdom of God, along with plenty of focus and interaction with the people who were most important to me. And we still owned the possessions that we needed and which were most important to us. But everything else went. And the difference was tangible. In some respects, it was remarkable how much more enjoyable our lives became. And I would not go back.
 
That’s exactly the point both Swindoll and Comer were making in their books, and it’s the point the Apostle Paul was making in 1 Thessalonians 4:10-12. Simple is often better than complicated, small can be better than big. It’s also the point Solomon was making in the TEV version of Ecclesiastes 7:29 that we considered that other day: “God has made us plain and simple but we have made ourselves very complicated.”
 
Sometimes an important part of good selfcare will involve simplifying and downsizing in life. Are there some ways in which you could create more space in your life?
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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