Limitations

“A man’s got to know his limitations.”

”Dirty” Harry Calahan

                               

Several friends have asked me recently why I have not written in this blog lately. It was gratifying to me to hear that someone even noticed! I didn’t really think that anyone, except perhaps Bob Johnson, actually read any of this.

When I first began writing this blog I was a mere lad of 60 years (see archive 2006, New Beginnings). I am now 67, and if I have noticed nothing else over the last seven years I have noticed that my stamina and endurance have decreased. By the time I work a 50-55 hour work week, and by the time I prepare my lesson for small group, I have nothing left for the blog. Add to this the fact that I have felt particularly uninspired in recent years, and the blog has gone unwritten, compared with what I had done in the beginning. “A man’s got to know his limitations.” And I am certainly beginning to know mine!

To any and all who have wanted to read and have been disappointed, I apologize. Some who have followed in the past know that I have had a tendency to beat myself up over the fact that I have been writing nothing. I have become convinced that this has been God’s will, and that He has wanted me to do other things with the time and energy that He has given me. Not the least of these things is the small group teaching both here in Des Moines and in the Rio Grande Valley.

The summer work marathon is now over. I am cutting back to 40-45 hour work weeks with a whole two days off each week. Also, God has been speaking to me about getting back to the writing. I am also feeling His prompting to offer my comments about what exactly is going on in our very troubled world and what He has lead me to do regarding these times we are finding ourselves in.

I am encouraged by the famous Isaiah 40 passage, and will claim it’s promise:

 Have you never heard?

Have you never understood?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
        He gives power to the weak
and strength to the powerless.
        Even youths will become weak and tired,
and young men will fall in exhaustion.
          But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.

isaiah 40:28-31 (NLT)

Stay tuned to this “station” for more.

Thanks for sharing this moment with me today.