Pencil Me In…

Esther 4:14 who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

What a great question… Who knows?

I’ll admit it, lately I have been obsessing over the perfect “At A Glance” calendar format/ journal/how to spreadsheet I can come up with. A one stop spot to see; where I’ve been, where I’m at and where I’m going. Oh yes, and EVERYTHING I need to observe and remember as I’m running out the door (or am I coming in?).

That makes me sound so busy, right? Yeah… no. I don’t run anywhere or anytime! My days are so calm and ordinary and uneventful, I could fill out one page and just copy it for the next seven.

But there is ONE THING I do seem to obsess about… I might miss that one day… the day that might become a time such as this!

Maybe it’s already happened and I’ve just forgotten it. Maybe, it would have happened IF I put had put enough oil in my lamp. What if I’m a foolish virgin rather than a prudent one – falling asleep before remembering to go add oil to my grocery list?(Matthew 25:1-12 Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour)

Knowing the day… Knowing the hour… Knowing me! OK, NOW I’m worried!

Then God spoke… Matthew 6:27 Who of you (“HELLO, Mary, can you hear me now?) by being worried can add a single hour to his life?

James 4:13-14 Come now, you who say (Mary, are you making a note of this?), “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Mary, THIS IS THE DAY, I (the Lord) have made! 

Yes, and I (Mary) don’t want to miss it or forget it!

Then God said, “BUT, while you are obsessively trying to shove all things mind, body and spirit, into your EVERYDAY BOX, you are missing our Daddy/Daughter time. You turn your eyes from our dance and turn the day into practicing without your Dance Partner.

Rather than hearing My song, you turn up the volume on the latest line dance, made up by the hippest and coolest Christian preacher, writer, singer, church group, and think I (God) must be there because you are gathered with two or more.

I’m not… I’m still right here, waiting for My child to come and play!”

Romans 8:16-17 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ…Talk about attaining royalty!

Zephaniah 3:17 Adonai your God is in your midst— a mighty Savior! He will delight over you with joy. He will quiet you with His love. He will dance for joy over you with singing.’(Tree of Life version)… Talk about a time such as this!

My obsession with my At A Glance observing and remembering is causing me to miss the GREATEST TIME such as this… Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure. 

Certainly, I’m NOT missing the work God has done/is doing/will do in my life. His Will, will be done! I’m MISSING THE JOY/REJOICING of stepping up on His feet, abandoning all my own moves, being twirled and whirled and moved in the Spirit, to the SONG OF LOVE and PROPHECY, Daddy is singing as we dance. “For I know the plans that I have for you, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)

God has indeed “Penciled Me In” for every dance! Psalm 23:1-3 He MAKES ME lie down in green pastures; He LEADS ME beside quiet waters. He RESTORES my soul; He GUIDES ME in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 

It is up to me to show up and dance.

Or… will I settle for filling our dance card with could’ve/should’ve/would’ve notes, rather than actually dancing in THIS moment?

Would you settle?

Matthew 6:33 But seek first His kingdom (His face) and His righteousness (His arms), and all these things (the could’ve/would’ve/should’ve notes) will be added  (at just the right time) to you. (Without the necessity of obsessive tasks!) Seek this dance, the ONLY DANCE suitable for a moment such as this!

Who knows? I might know… if my pencil become a pen written in God’s indelible ink, and I throw my at a glance planner/calendar/diary/how to book in the Waste of Time box. I might know… if I replaced my someday with the ONLY DAY worthy of observing and remembering… THIS is the day the LORD has made…

The day of our Abba/Child Dance.

A royal dance indeed!

May He have this dance?

**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.