I'm So Busy!
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Tim Udouj, and the scripture is Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
On the college campus where I'm a pastor, I have a little game I like to play. It goes like this: I simply ask a student, "How are you doing today?" and then I wait for their response. The funny part is that 9 times out of 10 the answer goes almost exactly like this: "I am sooooo busy today! In fact, I'm headed to the library now, and then I've got several meetings tonight! I'm sooooo busy!" It's become a running joke that I'll just go ahead and finish the sentence before they can even get it out.
One of the things we have been talking about is how we daily tell ourselves lies, and what it would be like to replace those lies with the truth. I think one of the lies that we start to believe at a very early age is this: "My busyness is proof of how important I am" or "If I stop doing so much then maybe I won't have the life that I want."
We can easily fall prey to the lie that busyness is equal to our value, or even worse that our busyness equals our holiness. The truth is that you can be extremely busy, and even doing really great things…but have a heart that is after the praise of men rather than God. In our Christian life it's easy to think if we are simply doing a bunch of Christian stuff then we are okay. But that's far from the truth.
Whether you are busy or not is not the question. The question is why you do what you do. A good test for whether or not your busyness has become too important to you is whether or not you are able to rest. Can you stop from your work long enough to be satisfied in the work of Jesus?
Champions, have a great day and week!-David Vining
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