MAXED OUT

When You Are Maxed Out

 You know you are maxed out when you:

1. Can’t Relax

If this is true, then guard your quiet time against all but life-and-death interruptions.

2. Can’t Say No

Are you responding to the urgent rather than the important? Are the “squeaky wheels” deterring you from investing in people who will count for the future? Count for the Kingdom?

3. Can’t Take A Day Off

When you find it difficult to take at least a day off a week, could it be that you are need-driven rather than God-driven?

4. Think It’s All Up To You

Here, you are taking on your shoulders that which is God’s responsibility. A friend of mine with an “A” type personality used to say that periodically he had to resign as “Chancellor of the Universe“. Do you need to do the same?

5. Find It Hard To Let Your Hair Down

We all need relationships where we can let our hair down. Perhaps this means being vulnerable. Sometimes it simply means just having fun. Beware of believing the lie that says time spent in fun is wasted time.

Keep in mind that Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  (1 Peter 5:8)

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  (1 Peter 5:7)