and I think you might too.
This weekend in our student ministry we are continuing our current teaching series called “Busy”. Every single one of us from time to time feel the pressure that being busy applies to our lives. Busyness is not just an adult problem. Gone are the days of Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, or Leave it to Beaver. There is not one student that I know that is saying, “Man, I am so bored in life, I just don’t have anything to do.” Busyness can mess with us no matter what our age is. It can be a cancer that spreads, gnawing away on our life’s vital organs.
Do you know what I hate? I hate when people are upset with me. It feels like there is a 100 pound weight on my chest pressing down. I hate the feeling that I get when I know the scales are tipping against me.
One of the myths of busyness that we are going to look at this weekend is that we can make everyone happy as long as we do enough. Abraham Lincoln is credited with the origins of this quote:
You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can not please all of the people all of the time.
Most of us who read that quote will shake our head in agreement only to walk away and keep on trying to please everyone. That is a problem. We can’t do it. Like a tumor, busyness wants to burrow itself deep into your brain and sow the idea that the more you do the more people will; approve of you, like you, love you, want you, need you, etc.
The problem with busyness is that it can keep us from being who God wants us to be and from doing what God wants us to do.
Do you see a problem with this? What can we do to fight busyness? Are you to busy?
~Peter
2 Comments
I do see a problem with that! It’s about the same as trying to get people to accept you because of what you can do or what you want to accomplish. I think we can solve busyness by stoping once inawhile and setting time aside to actually think of nothing… Like a layover during a flight sometimes we all need that time
Good thoughts Matt! keep em coming!