You’re Too Busy.
You’re too busy! There was a period of my life when I asked God if He had been talking to the devil about me. I cannot and do not place myself on a level of the man Job in the bible. However, knowing that the devil is still going to and fro as the “prince of the power of the air,” I asked God why so many things where happening to me when I was just trying to serve Him.
Have you ever been there?
My wife left me. I broke my leg. I rolled my Bronco II. Within this three month period I feared losing my kids, I wondered if I would ever heal from the festering infection in my leg, I lost the only vehicle I owed.
God, are you there? “Yes, but you’re too busy.”
He was. And I made it through. Those next two years I kept myself extremely busy. TOO BUSY. While I should have been honing in on my skills I was just staying busy to keep from the realities that prevailed in my life.
Mark Batterson wrote the book, Whisper. In it he says, “When our lives get loud, with noise filling every frequency, we lose our sense of being.” That really spoke to me. Because through the years I’ve read Andrew Root’s book, Children of Divorce. He says, “The loss of family is the loss of being.”
Root shared he and his wife’s experience in seeing their parents divorce. Significantly, as adults themselves they felt they lost a bit of who they were as their own parents split.
My parents rid their phone home line of which I had known for 35 years. THAT made me feel something unusual inside. Now imagine what it’s like for a child to lose the very thing that is their identity. Without our mom and dad we would cease to be. So you can understand when the relationship that created you falls apart, you lose your sense of being.
Mark Batterson went on to say, “You’re too busy… We’ve turned into human doings rather than human beings.”
We are seeing the effects of busyness played out in culture today. More marriages end in divorce than stay together. This plays out in their children. Fast forward 25 years and they are running our country.
Divorce has brought a loss of being, which has brought a great confusion, which has affected American culture, which affects culture around the world.
Think of all the confusion we see today. Look within. Middle School was always a perplexing season of life. How much more so with all the gender and sexual dysphoria.
There is no confusion in the Word of God.
Isaiah 62:3-5
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
I’ve felt forsaken. I’ve felt as though I lived in a desolate land. You have too, I’m sure. BUT GOD… He delights in you. Be content and happy in who you are.
Middle school for me is when I started to drift from the calling to be a missionary. Why? Pressure to conform. I put on. I talked the talk. And yes, it worked, I was accepted. But I was accepted for what I put on, not for who I was. It left me empty. It will you too!
Trust in the fact that God rejoices over you. Slow down to hear His whisper. Enough of the rat race that only leaves you trapped.
