Paper Blockade

I know they are outdated, but remember those over-head transparency projectors? The thing that always made me laugh about them was that you could block the view with a simple piece of white printer paper.

Sometimes the hardest blockade for me to break down to spend time with God like I know I should is a flimsy little piece of paper. It's my to-do list. It tells me, "Evaluate your topical message," "Write your journal for BibFund," "Study for those three exams," and of course "Don't forget that phone date!"

I wonder how often our view of God's glory and His plan for our lives is obstructed by that piece of paper... the same way the light of the projector is entirely blotted out... by a thin, weak, paper blockade.