Trust God and do the next thing.

I'm getting in the habit of taking things one step at a time.

Its just a waste to feel burdened by 40 different 'To dos' when I can only humanly do one thing at a time.

Last month we read the biography of Oswald Chambers entitled Abandoned to God by David McCasland -such a rad book, everyone should read it.  Throughout his incredible life, Chambers would always say "Trust God and do the next thing."  This is really relevant to me.

First: I need to trust God.  I can't determine any self-worth based on my ability or inability to do things, because that attitude does nothing but enslave me to a performance-mentality.  What a roller-coaster of a life that is!  Trusting God means recognizing that my identity and self worth is based in who God declares me to be because of Jesus, not in my accomplishments.  How freeing!

Second: I need to do the next thing. Not everything.  Just the next thing.  Focusing on just taking the next step, the next shift at work, then the next class, then the next paper, then the paper after that, then picking up around the house and making dinner--it turns tasks into a rhythm rather than into a huge nasty pile of horrible things that I just want to run away from.

This approach is making things simpler, and I'm actually getting stuff done!  Yay!