Sleeping!

The cat was sleeping!!

I was jealous…

My to-do list was long…

The cat’s to-do list apparently had one item on it: sleep.

There were a lot of important items on my list…

The world wouldn’t be changed by what I did that day…

But maybe, I told myself, one corner of it would be a little better…

Or maybe I was just dreaming…

Dreamers fantasize their self-importance; Proverbs 26:16

 Maybe I was working to make my own plan come true…

Forgetting its God’s plan that will succeed…

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.  Proverbs 19:21

Maybe I foolishly thought God needed my help…

When He had it all handled…

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?  Jeremiah 32:27

Maybe I justified my busy day by thinking God needed me…

When it is I who need Him…

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

Maybe I was even telling myself that my plans were God’s plans, when God has said…

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.  Isaiah 55:8 

Which brings me back to the cat…

I am sure she has never once thought that if she worked just a little harder…

If she endured just a little sleep deprivation…

She could change the world.

I am sure she has never thought about being anything other than the cat God made her to be…

Maybe there’s a lesson in that…

Maybe it’s enough to be who we were made to be …

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139:14