Make Space | What’s Driving Me?
Make Space: “What’s Driving Me?”
Exodus 16:1-29, 20:8, Leviticus 19:9-10, Deuteronomy 24:19, Matthew 6:31-34
Margin is the space between our CURRENT PACE and our LIMITS.
Our happiness in life is most often measured by the health of our RELATIONSHIPS not our PROSPERITY and not our ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
We FEAR something:
MISSING out.
FALLING behind.
Not being SIGNIFICANT.
Our fear of not mattering ENOUGH has the potential to pull us away from the things that matter MOST.
Does God really care about my SCHEDULE? Does God really care about the PACE of my life?
Law of the SABBATH: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.” Exodus 20:8
Law of GLEANING:
Leviticus 19:9-10 pg. 184
v.9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very EDGES of your field or gather the GLEANINGS of your harvest.”
v.10 “Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the POOR and the FOREIGNER. I am the LORD your GOD.”
“When you are harvesting your field and you overlook a SHEAF, don’t go back and get it. Leave it for the FOREIGNER, the FATHERLESS and the WIDOW, so that the Lord your God may BLESS YOU in all the WORK of YOUR hands.” Deuteronomy 24:19
Matthew 6:31-32 pg. 1,505
v.31 “So do not WORRY, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear?”
v.32 “For the PAGANS run after all these things and your Heavenly Father KNOWS that you need them.”
Questions:
1. Are you someone who prefers life to be ‘neat and tidy’ or do you gravitate to the messiness? Is there a correlation in your daily life?
2. Do you agree or disagree with the statement that, ‘Our happiness in life is most often measured by the health of our relationships, not our prosperity or our accomplishments. Why?
3. Where do you already know, you need to ‘Make Space’ and create margin in your life?