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November 28, 2016 - August 4, 2017
We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don’t even notice the most important things slipping away.
Just remember the most serious threats are spiritual. When we are crazy busy, we put our souls at risk.
Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.
When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone’s joy.
The greatest danger with busyness is that there may be greater dangers you never have time to consider.
What we need is the Great Physician to heal our overscheduled souls. If only we could make time for an appointment.
You are unique. Your gifts are important. People love you. But you’re not irreplaceable.
of all the possible problems contributing to our busyness, it’s a pretty good bet that one of the most pervasive is pride.
when it comes to good causes and good deeds, “do more or disobey” is not the best thing we can say.
He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.
Speaking of Christ:
If Jesus had to live with human limitations, we’d be foolish to think we don’t.
God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.
Unless we’re God, none of us deserve to be the priority for everyone else all the time.
Rather than figure out what to do with our spare minutes and hours, we are content to swim in the shallows and pass our time with passing the time.
We want to breathe the undistracted air of digital independence, but increasingly the room is all we know.
What if we choose to be busy so that we can continue to live with trivia and distraction?
The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things.
We can’t run incessantly and expect to run very well.
Most of us have a tremendous sleep debt to pay, and the sooner we start banking those regular deposits the better—better
I’m not so important in God’s universe that I can’t afford to rest. But my God-given limitations are so real that I can’t afford not to.
The busyness that’s bad is not the busyness of work, but the busyness that works hard at the wrong things.
What is wrong—and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable—is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.
