Seduced By Busyness

Many of us fall into the trap of believing that to be effective one must be busy. We fill our days with agendas to occupy our time. We move from meeting to meeting, appointment to appointment, in an attempt to have a “meaningful life.” We try to live each day without having an unengaged minute. We don’t want it to be said that we were caught “sleeping on the job.”

We live this way because we have been seduced by the power of busyness. And busyness is a sweet seducer. Busyness can lead you to believe that life is not valuable if it is not loaded with a hectic schedule. Busyness will convince you that to be daily pushed to your physical, emotional, and mental limits is the only way to really matter in this world. Busyness often encourages you to believe that your own well-being does not matter and that all that matters is ordering your life from task to task. This is the job of busyness; to keep you busy!

Believe me, I know how tempting it is to be busy, but sometimes there is much that is lost in our pursuit of busyness. I want you to consider a few things as you become absorbed with the business of busyness. How much of life has busyness caused you to miss? How many times has busyness robbed you of joy? How many relationships have you been deprived of because of busyness? How much love has been lost in your life because you were focused on busyness? I think Jesus may have even had busyness in mind when he raised the question: “For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?” Remember, God did not call us to be busy. God called us to be faithful.

Peace and Blessings,

Pastor Mike