Checklist

Recently, I accompanied my mom to the nearby supermarket. All that she wanted was a packet of washing powder. But as most times, we went through every bay and picked up stuff that we liked. I even got a pen. Why? I don't know, it just looked good. And after a while mom said,"Oh, I need washing powder." and she went in search of it. There are times when she would come home and say,"I forgot to buy that!" or at times, she would look at the bill and recall,"A few years back, your dad would take me only to that particular store near our house. I would have already made a checklist of what all to buy and when we go there, I would not even look at any other product. I would get whatever is there on my list and get back." Well, it is no longer like that.

Most of us live our day to day life like this these days, forget just the shopping that we do. Technology has literally changed the way we approach life. It has made the world a super market. Choices everywhere. Everything looks pleasing to the eye and more often than not, we get engrossed in trying to buy the stuff that the world is selling, to such an extent that we often forget the purpose for starting the journey. 

There have been times when I would tell myself before going to bed,"Listen, you've wasted enough time today. Tomorrow is going to be a new day. Start afresh." Next day morning, I would be all charged up to do something worthwhile and by evening I would have realized that I had failed AGAIN! I would think,"I just scrolled up, scrolled down,and again scrolled up and scrolled down and it's been two hours?" (I know, there are some of you out there nodding your head too. :-))

So, what did I do wrong here? I was just so carried away by all the wonderful stuff that the Internet has to offer that I forgot why I came online in the first place! Now, that's a perfect super market. I just forgot to take my checklist along with me and thus, found myself in the wrong bay or found some advertising strategy very enthralling!

We just get caught up with all the buzz of life that we forget what we have written down in our checklist. Oh wait.. By the way, did we even make one?

I know, this is way too difficult - to make a checklist that shows what we will do with our lives, to set boundaries for ourselves and to ensure that we don't cross them. But just as we decide to make that checklist, we will either not know what to put in there or will just never find time to sit down and make one. But God says that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. So, instead of us, trying to make that checklist on our own by making our little brains to think like God and fail miserably at it, why not just ask God to help us make that list? It is going to be easier if we have to ask Him how He wants us to live and put in those points out there! He might just write it like this for you: 

• * Put your faith in Me today for I am the Way, Truth and Life.
• * Don't be discouraged today. Be patient. I make all things beautiful in My time.
• * Enough of following people on twitter. Now, follow Me. Add Me in your friend list and spend time with Me .
• * Smile. Don't just exist. Live. Make a positive impact on someone's life.

         This list might not tell you what should be done today to increase your worldly knowledge or your wealth and fame but it is certainly going to feed YOU.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36 

 How we live this life determines where we spend our eternity, so why settle for a passing happiness instead of eternal joy??

(Video : Song 'Lose My Soul' by Toby Mac. You can find the lyrics here at http://www.lyricstime.com/tobymac-lose-my-soul-lyrics.html )

So.. have you made your checklist today?