Why are we so busy?
Last Sunday in our morning message I posed a question as to why we are so busy. Why do we fill our schedules with so much? I had some ideas about this and I threw them out as some possibilities.Sometimes I think that we are so busy because we are hiding or running from our pain. There is a struggle in our lives that hurts to deal with and so we fill up our schedules to avoid the pain. When I counsel with folks that are dealing with serious hurt in their lives, I will often tell them to keep themselves busy so as to not be overwhelmed and consumed with their hurt. But I do think that we can take this too far. We do need some times when we bring our pain before the Lord and ask Him to help us with it. We cry out to Him and tell Him our hurt and our need. This is tough to do sometimes, because staying and facing my pain is not my first choice. I would rather run from it, find a diversion so that I don't have to deal with it. But I am finding that as I bring my situation and lay it before the Lord in prayer and as I share my hurt with a trusted friend, that I begin to find hope. The situation does not change, but I know that I am not alone in my struggle.
I also said that sometimes we are so busy because we are hungry. What I mean by that is that we are hungry for fulfillment and meaning for our lives. Our thought is that if I could just add one more thing to my already overloaded life; maybe that will be the key -- the answer -- the "thing" that is missing, that I am looking for and find peace, or joy or a sense of fulfillment. In my own spiritual journey I find there is only one thing that satisfies, and that is a relationship with Christ. It is only through Christ that our deepest and most heartfelt needs can be met. We learn to be like David when he said that God is my source. Sometimes I forget this truth and I live my life as if I am looking for life in other places. God gently and lovingly brings me back faceto face with this truth that only through Him will I find life, that which I hunger for.
So anyway, just some thoughts about this whole thing. What do you think? Why do we get so busy?
We are going to be talking about that this Sunday as we continue to "Make Room for Life."
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posted by Mike and Mary Taylor @ 11:09 AM
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I feel that you are so very right. When we are that busy we get so consumed with what is going on and loose sense of where we are or more importantly where God wants us. We start to have a tendencey to feel out of control and Chaos slowly creeps in. The devil is the owner of Chaos and thrives when we get to this point. He through exhaustion can steal our Joy, and blessings because we are so buried in what we are doing that our eyes are not focused on the blessings he gives us but on how to survive. I think that for a lot of us who have spent our lives struggling with hurt that we have spent years and waisted so much time and energy in the survival mode, that we dont know how to cope any other way. Healing is the key. Did you know that our scars are beautiful to God. I have learned that if you take those scars and share them with someone else they realize that they are ok and God thinks their beautiful too. So many times we get stuck in the worldly view of whats accepable and whats not that we feel shamed about what we have endured or the choices we have made that we dont think society will view us as godley, lovely or Loved by God and worhty of him just as much as the next person. The truth is without peoples scars and sharing their hurts and testamonies so many others whould have never known Christ. for example I was horribly abused growing up including sexually. If it were not for other peoples testimony who have endured the same abuse and pain, talking about the peace they had found in the Lord and how he sees me as an innocent child and Loves me unconditionally. I honestly feel I wouldnt be alive today or if I was I would be lost in a world of drugs, unhappieness, self hatered, and other imoral activities while still searching to fill that empty void. I have learned to take something very ugly and turn it into somthing beautiful. Pain and emotional scaring is not somthing that is easy to deal with however its's very comforting for me to know that God can take somthing so ugly and use it for his glory and somthing good can come out of that. If I can just touch one persons life and show them the way to the peace, grace and love that only God can give us and has filled me. Then it was all worth it! I highly recomend taking a boundaries class on how to set healthy boundaries in our life. The other thing I highly recomend the book (Your scars are beautiful to God) Author is Sharon jaynes. Its a great healing book and it can be found at Christian supply.
Hope this helps someone and God Bless!
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