Emmanuel Mennonite

A Full Plate

One of our church members made an important observation in response to my sermon last Sunday. "What you said applies to our personal lives too," she said. "There are so many opportunities, we need to have focus and make decisions, or our plate gets too full."

How do you make those decisions? I asked, and I was glad for the chance to talk about this on a very practical level.  I also told her that I'm looking forward to Shigali's sermon this coming Sunday, because I think he may touch on some of this too--as we seek to follow Jesus, what do we need to drop?  what do we need to pick up? what do we bypass?  What does Jesus give us to carry?

I love having a full plate of ministry with people to see and things to do and places to go--but it needs to be the plateful that Jesus gives me to carry.  I pray for good discernment for myself and for all of us.