We have planners, calendars on our phones and tablets, to-do lists, and tons of other means of scheduling our days out. So many of us have each 24 hours planned down to the minute, packing our time with work, family, and social obligations. You can open your google calendar and see that your haircut is in three weeks, the dinner party you’re hosting is in two months, and your next dental cleaning is five months, 1 week, 2 days and 9 ½ hours away.
No matter how well you try to structure and steward your time, however, there’s something you can never schedule:
The trials you will encounter in this life.
You’re never going to be able to schedule or plan for a scary medical diagnosis, a devastating loss, unexpected financial troubles, the breakdown of a relationship, or any number of other problems that life is going to throw your way. And that’s a helpless feeling, isn’t it? It’s that reminder that no matter how in control of our days we try to make ourselves feel, we control absolutely none of our circumstances in the end. What could you possibly schedule on a day that brings something that knocks the wind out of you?
You can schedule your worship. You can schedule time with God where you are going to give the unknown outcome to Him, and draw His peace into your situation with the weapon of praise. That is something you can make time for, no matter where you are, that invites surrender, and therein, His presence, and His peace that surpasses all understanding.
And when we bump worship up to the top of any day’s schedule, everything else falls into place.
