God Appoints My Portion—Even the Interruptions

Inside: What if today’s interruptions are really God’s appointments? He lovingly directs our steps—and even the unplanned moments are opportunities to walk in obedience.

God’s Appointments or Life’s Interruptions?

I don’t like to be interrupted.

My heart isn’t always ready to receive what God has appointed for me in the moment. I forget that God appoints my portion. Instead of seeing these moments as divine appointments, I often see them as disruptions.

But the truth is, these so-called “interruptions” reveal something about my heart—a heart that still needs pruning. A heart that should be saying, like the servants in 2 Samuel 15:15, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”

Whatever I’m doing—whether it’s a task on my list, a quiet moment of reading, or even something that feels important—it’s not more important than what God has for me in that moment.

It may be a phone call from a friend, an unexpected visitor, or a child needing attention. It may be my husband needing a listening ear, dinner that needs to be made, or a shirt that needs ironing (yes, I still iron 😉).

Whatever it is, it’s not an interruption. It’s an appointment from the Lord.

My life is not my own—it belongs to Him. He ordains my days. He appoints my portion. And because He is my King, I want to be ready to do whatever He has assigned for me, in that moment, with a joyful heart.

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God’s Appointments

These moments aren’t disruptions—they’re reminders. They remind me that I still don’t fully grasp what it means to live all of life for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).

Our God is continually at work—remaking us, sanctifying us, and calling us to walk in obedience, moment by moment, day by day.

It’s in these “little” moments that His loving hand does the pruning. The question is: will I respond with obedience and joy, or will I respond with grumbling and frustration?

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A Devotional Reminder

I’ve been reading through Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston, and the January 14th reading was especially meaningful to me. It includes this lovely poem by A. L. Waring:

“I love to think that God appoints,
My portion day by day;
Events of life are in His hand,
And I would only say,
Appoint them in Thine own good time,
And in Thine own best way.“

And this reflection from Frances Ridley Havergal spoke straight to my heart:

If we are really, and always, and equally ready to do whatsoever the King appoints, all the trials and vexations arising from any change in His appointments, great or small, simply do not exist… If all my members are really at His disposal, why should I be put out if today’s appointment is some simple work for my hands or errands for my feet, instead of some seemingly more important doing of head or tongue?

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Closing Thoughts

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

—Proverbs 16:9

Our days may not go as planned, but God is always in control—and He is always working for our good (Romans 8:28). He can bring glory to Himself through what we call interruptions, when we begin to see them as opportunities to walk in obedience and reflect His grace.

I’ll close with one of my favorite quotes from C.S. Lewis:

“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day…”

Friend, may we receive today’s appointments with open hands and a willing heart—ready to say:

“Here I am, Lord.”