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If Jesus resurrected, then your agenda is not the most important part of each day.
This one is for the planners.
“How do you do it?” I asked wondering why he is not frustrated with so many interruptions. “I simply adjust my thoughts so that when I am in the office, I am free game to any who needs to interrupt me,” he said.
He responds with patience and kindness as he listens to person after person swing by his desk.
As one who oversees much of the organization, he has plenty of urgencies along with long-term planning to occupy his day. But he chooses flexibility so he can answer any question or have those much needed spontaneous meetings.
His agenda is to hold his agenda loosely.
The moment we wake up, the plan for the day grips our thoughts. “I know what I want to do and accomplish.” When our third item on the list is delayed, the brows drop, your mind races, and you’re seized with irritation.
We get angry because our expectations are not met, but we don’t have to.
It’s simple…change your expectations.
This kind of change in mindset is not easy because suppressing what we want doesn’t come natural.
At least it won’t come natural unless we change what we want.
When Jesus resurrected, he appeared to his disciples and many others because he wanted them to know he resurrected. He wants us to know he resurrected because it will affect our mindset for life—and for each day.
We can learn a new agenda.
We learn a better agenda that will do more than satisfy our day. It will even do more than satisfy life before death. The resurrection makes known an eternal agenda in which we can take part—daily.
The resurrection means that God is in control and that his daily agenda isn’t even thwarted by death. It also means what he wants for the world is more important than what we want for the world.
And that means what he wants for your day is more important than what you want for your day.
…meaning that those moments, when your day doesn’t go as you planned, actually reveal that God has something better for you than you can imagine…because if you could have imagined it, then you would have planned it.
But you didn’t. Your plan didn’t work out. God chose differently. And that is how you know you can trust him. Though it is the hardest thing to do, embracing God’s change is the best thing you can do.
So let’s make the agenda and accept his revisions.
Thanks,
Aaron