Busy, busy, busy, don’t we always have to
be doing something? We are always trying
to accomplish something, a project, a task or just trying to look busy. You can’t get ahead unless you accomplish
your goals. How often do we hear that or
even say it? If I wanted to pick three
words that describe our culture, they would be the three in my title. Doesn’t it seem like we always have to go
someplace to do something that will benefit us.
We are going to work, going to play, going to the store, taking our kids
to a play date. When did the words play
date become part of our vocabulary?
Whatever happened to just relaxing, or even just playing? Nope, we have to be doing something
constructive even if we have no time. With
all of this I must benefit from all the activity, after all am I not the center
of the universe? Doesn’t life revolve
around me? Didn’t God create all of this
because he loves me? Does that mean I
don’t have to care for my neighbor?
After all isn’t my neighbor supposed to care for me? Does this sound familiar? Isn’t this the way our lives are lived?
If I had my way, I would just as soon sit
in a comfortable chair with a good book, or maybe a movie to watch, but what does
God say? In Psalms 46:10 He said “Be
still and know that I am God: I will be
exalted among nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Who is the important one? Will I be exalted or will God? Am I willing to be still and listen to
God? When He commands I have to go, but
I have to make sure I am going where he says, doing His Will, not mine.
So the question I have to ask is, in this
busy life who am I serving? Who does my
world revolve around? Have I studied His
Word, have I listen to Him? Who is
actually first in my life? The minute I start living my life for me I am
not serving God. Jesus was sent to
restore our relationship with God, and only making God first will we keep that
relationship. We are not equals in this
relationship, God is first.
As Christians we need to reach out to this
fallen world. But before we start all
the going and doing we need to be still.
If God is our first priority we need to listen to Him. We need to spend time in His word and in
fellowship with other believers. Then we
need to follow the command given to us in Matthew 28:18-20. These verses tell us to reach out and spread
the gospel, not stay in our comfortable church. What I am saying is not easy, I would much
rather stay at home with that good book and satisfy my wants, but that is not
what Jesus is telling me to do. Be still
and know that I am God, listen to his voice and do His will.
So, yes I have to be going, but for His
purpose, not mine. I have to be doing
but to serve Him, not me. Finally, I
definitely am not first, I am last.
