I constantly find; almost every day, that I am having to find a balance between God, the work I do for God, my Wife, my Son and my daytime job. Some things are set in stone, like my daytime job and my Son, they involve schedules that have to be adhered to. But then the more important areas of my life, as in God, kind of get side lined due to time constraints and deadlines. It is a balancing act that has to be maintained everyday.

And being a volunteer does not make it easier; it’s not like you can say that the work you do for God is all the time that you need to spend with God, that’s like being a workaholic and never spending time with the family, yet saying you are doing it for the family. I think as a volunteer one has to be ever more aware of the time spent with God as opposed to the time spent working for God.

I have been challenged lately in this because in the last few weeks I have found myself working late on video editing and then being too tired in the morning to make time for God. Even if I try connect with God at another time I find myself drifting off and thinking about things I have to do.

This is not a healthy thing, in fact I should be starting off with putting God First – that is my relationship with Him before I start running around doing stuff for Him, lest I run the risk of loosing the reason why I am working so hard.

So, the truth is that there really should not be a balancing act; at least when it comes to God.

That is going to be my challenge for a while.  Put God First.