Are you singing the busy blues?

Are you Singing the Busy Blues?

I’m automatically reminded of the Alabama hit,

“I’m in a hurry to get things done, I rush and rush until life’s no fun, all I really gotta do is live and die, so I’m in a hurry and don’t know why.”

Are you too busy? I think in today’s world we all seem to have a case of the busy bees.

I’d like to share some statistics I found with you about being too busy:

The United States is the only country where women topped men in saying they were 1) almost always busy and 2) that busyness affected their spiritual walk.

I can totally relate just the week before last I had the following schedule: Monday was Labor day, luckily, Tuesday was TPA, Wednesday was church, Thursday was a meeting for setting up the women’s conference at church, Friday was a meal with the ladies, and Saturday was the women’s conference and of course church on Sunday.

Titus 2:3-5 says,

“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”

The Bible tells us to be “busy in the home” in Titus, but it never says to be busy, “at the school, in the workplace, in the community.” Where does your case of the busies come from?

We can be so busy that we loose sight of our purpose, and God’s purpose for us as a wife, as a mom, as a servant of His.

I have been reading a book lately about breaking free from spiritual bondage, which is short for: from Satan’s hold on your life. I found this anonymous writing about Satan and I must say… it made me think, and I think that they have something here, so if you don’t believe Satan is alive and well, well think again.

I found the following anonymous illustration about the devil that I would like to share with you.

BEING B-U-S-Y (The Devil’s Convention)
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said “We can’t keep the Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from conservative values.
But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.
So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time so they can’t gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!”
“How shall we do this?” shouted his angels.
“Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered.
“Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work.”
“Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that small still voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, VCR, DVDs, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical, contradictory music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.”
“Fill their coffee-tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk-mail, sweepstakes, mail-order catalogues and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.”
“Even in their recreation let them be excessive. Have them return from the recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week. Don’t let them go out to nature to reflect on God’s wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.”
“And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions.”
“Let them be involved in soul-winning, but crowd their lives with so many causes that they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.”
It was quite a convention in the end. The evil angels went to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there.
Has the devil been successful in his scheme?
You be the judge.
How about this definition of BUSY: Being Under Satan’s Yoke

Satan’s goal is to take our minds away from Christ and steer us towards the cares of the world. God wants us to enjoy life, but He must be first. If we are too busy for God, then we are too busy!
So, what do we do about it? We must go back to our first love, give God our first fruits. Remember back to when you first got married how much time you spent with your spouse, how you wanted to be around them every minute. Now, unless you’re a newly wed, what about now, not so much, huh?

We sometimes do that with God we allow him to become our “old man” and forget how much we love him. We also give him our leftovers. We squeeze in every possible activity we can into a day and we give God 5 minutes before bed.

So, we must make a renewed commitment to “seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness” and God promises, “all the rest shall be added unto you.” You do your part and God will surely do his.

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