“The man answered, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. ’Right!”, Jesus told him.” (Luke 10:27-28a NLT)
Whether a homemaker, working from home, or away from home for work or play, we typically find ourselves multitasking. The homemaker cooks, cleans, and carries out chores. The person who works from home is challenged to perform all the multiple assignments they had when working at home balances video conference calls, telephone calls, required virtual continuing education, and more. Individuals who are still reporting to the job site have a list of things to do that never seems to end and vary from day to day. That list becomes like a flooded basement, where you attempt to remove the water seems futile. For as soon as you remove one item on the list, it is replaced by another. At play, Christians must balance having fun, while fulfilling their tasks of being faithful to their roles as the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Let me add another one to the list. As disciples of Christ, we must be both spiritual and maintain without failure, our emotional maturity. We are multitaskers. We know about multitasking responsibility.
Caretakers do more than just take care of themselves. Policy makers must not only write the policies, but they must model them. Parents must raise their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord while adhering to the vows exchanged at their marriage ceremony and by marching in tune to the roles described for husbands and wives in the Scriptures. Single parents, well, they do it all while, with God’s help, they maintain their godly character. The faithful few in every church find themselves, on a weekly basis, doing things to benefit the local body of Christ.
Multitasking! When did you first hear the word or think about it? Well, whatever your answer may be, I would venture to say that it is impossible that it does not go back as far as the multitasking responsibility that Jesus approved of, as found in our opening verses, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.’ And ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”
This multitasking responsibility becomes challenging at times. So let me help you with a tip that works. If you comply with the first task, loving the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind, the second task, loving your neighbor as yourself is easy to do. Now the only thing that I can think of that will get in the way of our multitasking responsibility is if you don love yourself! Here’s more advice: Love yourself! You are fearfully and wonderfully made! You are blessed, more than you recognize! Just look at your blessings! Look at your gifts! Look at how the Lord has not only shaped you, but how He has strengthened you to do all things! In case you are thinking what I am about to say, I’ll say it for you, “Don’t love yourself so much that you cannot do either of the two tasks as described in our multitasking responsibility as children of God. Be God-conscious this Friday, on a day you have never seen before, but have been blessed to see! Multitask and do so in such a way that the Lord will say, “Well done!” Be blessed!
“And He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39 NASB)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King