I’M BUSY!
Are you busy? Most likely. If you are up and walking you are probably busy. We change from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time thinking it will give us more time. The old Indian said, “Only the government thinks you can cut blanket off one end and sew on other end and you have a longer blanket.” We have iPhones and Smart Phones that enable us to take more calls, text more messages, watch TV programs, movies and play games in order to occupy our unlimited brain. But at the end of the day where are we? We are reminded of what Jesus said, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” (Mt. 23:23).
Yes, at the end of the day we find that we haven’t spoken to God in prayer very much (except when that fellow almost ran us off the road). We are taught to pray without ceasing (1 Thess. 5:17) and that the “effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much” (James 5:16). I’m just busy.
Yes, at the end of the day we find that we haven’t let God speak to us through His word and studied the scriptures (2 Tim. 2:15). Somehow we have missed, “But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night” (Ps. 1:2). I’m just busy.
Yes, at the end of the day that person who needs encouragement didn’t get that phone call. Yes, the Bible does say, “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). I’m just busy.
Yes, at the end of the day we find that we didn’t just sit down with our children and hold them and say, “I love you” (Eph. 6:4; Titus 2:4). I’m just busy.
Oh, we didn’t do anything bad today. We just ran “to and fro” (Joel 2:9; Dan. 12:4; 1 Chron. 16:9; Amos 8:12) as one fellow put it “like a chicken with our head cut off” and now it’s the end of the day and we’re exhausted.
Perhaps we should reread this scripture, “Be still and know that I am God” (Ps. 46:10.
Larry