Who Keeps You Busy?

Echoes of Truth

January 6

Theme: Who Keeps You Busy?

‘If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy’ – Corrie Ten Boom

The year is still new, fresh. There are so many resolutions flying around. God’s daughters renew their love and commitment to their Father in heaven. There are many hopes of continual and steadfast walk with God. 

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There are so many heightened desires to being absolutely obedient to God’s will, doing what pleases Him all through the year. The goal is to keep the fire burning, the altar must stay hot and aflame!

However, if one were to look through the trends across many years, probably by the end of January, the momentum will dwindle, adrenaline will slow down, passion will stop burning… Can you relate?

Reading the Bible through plan would have skipped some few days unchecked. The midnight prayer alarm would not matter because the individual is deep in sleep. That habit we decided to let go off soonest will become a regular as though it never left for a few days. 

Commitments to personal intimacy with God should have been cut in half by the end of March and by June, life goes on without any trace of ever having that burning desire for a better, intimate, real, and experiential walk with God.

If we are being honest, the major response would be that life got busy. There are so many commitments. Can’t keep us with deadlines. Change of job, location, status and many other life realities that cannot be ignored.

However, who got you busy? Absolutely not God. The realities of life happen and everyone has to work to eat. Still… the various changes that happen in the course of the year that make us drift far away from the Lord, would it really be the Lord? The blessings that came our way and we were so thankful to God for them, yet they are the same means that keep us far away from Him. 

If the fire of intimacy with God burning upon our hearts at this time of the year will stay aflame all through this year, we must not let the devil manipulate us nor the circumstances of our lives to keep us stoking the fire on our altars.

Jesus said that the Kingdom of God suffers violence and only the violent can take it by force (Matthew 11:12)! We must daily burn with that zeal that recognises our need for God on the understanding that without Him, we can do nothing (John 15:5)!

Spiritual fervency is built only on choosing God first above every of life’s demands (Matthew 6:33). Don’t let the devil keep you busy away from God. Make God the priority.

Watch this short and powerful message by Paul Washer on being busy: