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.