BUSYNESS
The weight of
so many responsibilities and distractions - even the worthwhile ones - has a
crushing effect on a person's relationship with Christ. It ruins our taste for spiritual things. It suppresses our exuberance for spiritual
service. It suffocates our passion for
pursuing Christ and the intimate relationship He offers. It all grinds away at our soul. Eventually, following Jesus starts to lose
its luster. The blessings and joys of
walking with Him are crowded out by myriad tiny details of life.
Grace to You letter, Aug 16, 2004, Used by Permission.
You wake up
one day to realize that you are busier than you've ever been, but no deeper in
the things of God than you were years ago.
B-Busy
U-Under
S-Satan's
Y-Yoke
And as men’s
diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than
they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can well
withstand.
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 228-229.
I think one
of the cant phrases of our day is the familiar one by which we express our
permanent want of time. We repeat it so often that by the very repetition we
have deceived ourselves into believing it. It
is never the supremely busy men who have no time. So compact and systematic
is the regulation of their day that whenever you make a demand on them, they
seem to find additional corners to offer for unselfish service. I confess as a
minister, that the men to whom I most hopefully look for additional service are
the busiest men.
J.H. Jowett
Quoted
in: Spiritual Leadership, Oswald Sanders, Moody
Publishers, 1967, p. 94