It struck me as I was reading my Disciple I Bible readings for today that there's more - way too much more - in each of these Bible reading assignments than I can possibly absorb at one time. It was so much easier to absorb my reading when I was only reading one chapter of the Bible at a time; when I knew that only one verse a day was what God had in mind for me. But today, reading John Chapter 21 and all of 1 John, I wasn't able to separate out that message that God had for me.
Then at the same time it struck me, that's why it's so hard for me to write here. It's not that I have nothing to write, but that I have too much to write and cannot decide what should come first or what's important. This flooding of my mind and heart with ideas and thoughts actually becomes crippling rather than freeing. I need something or someone to help me decide what the priority is; what's important now!
Is this what hinders me - and others - in our attempts at evangelism? Not that we have nothing to say about God, but that we have too much to know where to begin? And is this what hinders those who are seeking God from finding God? Too many questions to know which one to ask first, and even worse, so many questions to ask that it's hard to stop and listen to any of the answers?
Somehow, I need to get back to the place I once was; one chapter, one verse, one question, one answer... after all, there's only one God!
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