When life gets busy we have to ask ourselves, “Are we too busy that we aren’t able to fit God into our day?”
I am a night owl. I start working at night and before I know it the clock it telling me it is two or three in the morning.
I have three littles at home. Time to write and really focus enough to write anything worth reading cannot happen when I have distractions.
The same goes for my time in God’s Word. I have to be able to pull away and give Him my attention.
That looks different for many people and that’s okay.
For instance, for me, my phone is not a distraction, because it is not a smart data feeding me phone. But for some that may be a distracting us. If it is buzzing every time you get a message or notification, you may need to turn it off.
The truth is, if we have the feeling we are too busy to spend time with God, as believers, we are too busy.
I mean real time where we sit at His feet, read and listen to His Word and concentrate on Him alone. If we are too busy for that we have to be careful because we are right where the Satan wants us to be.
Distracted from seeing the truth of God’s Word. The truth to walk and live by.
How do we keep from falling into that trap? We need to know the truth.
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:31-32 (BSB)
Jesus was telling the Jews (and us) who believed in Him, if you want to be free, free from slavery to sin and death, you have to know the truth. The truth is found in His Word.
You may be saying, I am a believer, I am not a slave to sin. We also know that it is easy to fall back into that life, that life is a life we know. It is a life that may have comforted us. It may continue to comfort us because it is familiar.
The life of busy and distracted. That life keeps us from the truth. It keeps us from The Word.
It keeps us from listening to the Word of Life, which is Christ Jesus.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
John tells us in his first verse. That Jesus is THE WORD. We don’t want to be kept from Him.
We so often find ourselves busy because we have a need and hunger for our time to be filled.
We also see in John 6:35 Jesus answered, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
As Believers, we know we want to or should want to hunger and thirst for Christ. How do we feed that hunger? Jesus answers by saying eating the bread that He has for us.
His Word.
His Truth.
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Labels: Are We Too Busy? John 8:31-32, John 1:1, John 6:35, Making Time with the Word, Placing God As Priority, Sitting Among Friends Blog Party
We so often find ourselves busy because we have a need and hunger for our time to be filled. 