It has been eight months since Monday Emissions From The Heart was born and three months since Juel's Travels was born. Both are YouTube Channels that the Holy Spirit called me to create.
Monday Emissions From The Heart happens every month about some spiritual topic God wants me to speak on. Juel's Travels happens when I travel. I love showing where I am staying or what I am seeing. I am looking forward to the future trips where the videos will be different, prayerfully better, than the rough stuff that has been published thus far.
But is this too much? I am still writing in three blogs, revising my first book, playing roles in my family, church, and other organizations. How much is too much? Too much can lead to a bad case of mental health that I don't want to experience. What mental health I have experienced was not fun; I don't want to go back there. Then I did everything on my own strength and planning. Now God is the one who dictates what I do or don't do. It is a lot easier when God gives me my schedule and I follow it.
But at times when it seems like I am doing too much, like right now. I have to pause, pray, and reconfirm this is what God wants me to do. This is a lot. Satan wants to convince me I am wasting my time doing all this. He wants me to chill and do little or nothing. He wants me to at least let some of these undertakings go. However, I know that whatever work God starts in me, He has finished. He doesn't start me down a path and say "oops, my mistake, that wasn't a good idea." Sometimes He leads me down a path I don't want to go, which is most of the time, but later I learn the why and where He is really taking me. It's like going through a training to get the prize, but the methods of the training are unusual.
I love it that God is the master scheduler and I get to walk through His schedule even when it is tough, embarrassing, humiliating, and exhausting. In those times I grow, I learn, I come closer to Him, and I see Him work the magic in my life and others.
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do." James 1:2-8 (NIV).
"I can do all this through him who gives me strength." Philippines 4:13 (NIV).
A video version of this same dilemma can be seen here.
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