How busy are you? There are days where I feel like I don’t stop going and yet haven’t checked off anything on my list of things I need to do. Unfortunately, many times when we get busy the thing we drop is time with the Lord–either personal time with Him or corporate worship to Him with others. The thing is, we always need Him. Busyness happens. If we are too busy to spend time with the Lord– we need to cut things out or re-manage our time. We wouldn’t skip brushing our teeth or eating day after day and yet, the most vital thing (our relationship with Jesus), is moved to the back burner. This isn’t Erin talking, God tells us that we aren’t to get too busy–
Hebrews 10: 22-25, “So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.”
I know life gets crazy towards the end of a semester. Trust me. I have 4 more papers due in the next 2 weeks. I too can fall prey to the lie that I’m too busy to really spend time in the Word and in corporate Worship. What does that really accomplish though? Here’s the truth. We’re always going to be busy. Trust me. I thought I’d be less busy once I could drive myself places… then I thought I’d have more time in college…. or maybe when I graduated college… no, it was when I got a job. What I hear is that this trend continues when we get married, have kids, even retire. What’s my point? We need to determine NOW what we value most and make it a priority on our list of necessities.
Not all of us get too busy for worship…. there are some that get so busy doing church that they don’t spend time with Christ. Know what I mean? I always think about Martha…
Luke 10: 40-42, “But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
This isn’t saying that we aren’t to serve… no look at the Hebrews passage again, we are to see how “inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out”. We just have to make sure that we don’t get so busy serving that we don’t sit at His feet to learn.
Please know this short post isn’t to condemn… instead it is meant to encourage each of us. To encourage each of us to not get so busy doing that we forget to spend time with our Savior. Whether we get busy doing things in the world or in the church if we skip getting to know Him we are missing the bigger picture. You know the crazy part? You’ll be just as busy but you will have a renewed joy, peace, and strength. Seriously!
