It was Corey Ten Boom who said if the devil can't make us bad
he'll just make us busy and here we live in this life which is everything's a thousand miles an
hour there's texts coming in and there's things we gotta read and places we gotta go and stuff we
got just busy just busy just busy and we've accepted that this is just how it has to be
but God says no there's something you can choose to do and you can choose to stop
and and and I would say if you're like me the things you're busy doing are good things they're
not bad things it's not like you're out foolishly using your time you're probably busy with children
and work and school and being married and business you know the job that you have is
probably consuming you like it is for most of us I believe most of our problems not all of them
but most of our problems are either caused or made worse because we're moving too fast for too long
you see busyness has become our business chaos has become our medication but we've
made work our God God has become work and busyness has become our badge of honor
and that's not what Jesus modeled for us in Matthew chapter 11 verse 28 it says come to me
all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest do you think that's a promise or a suggestion
it's a promise so if I said come to me right now and I will give you ten dollars
I just made a promise that I have to deliver on right but Jesus says come to me let me be
the first option when you find yourself exhausted and tired let come to me first because I really am
the one who can give you rest I will give you this rest if you want it he says that he often withdrew
to lonely places a place where you can disconnect a place where your cell phone doesn't work
a place where literally it's you and God Jesus invites you to come he invites you to come to him
if you're worn out if you're overwhelmed if you're burdened and he will give you something
that many of you have not experienced in a long time he will give you a heavenly rest
tired worn out burned out on religion Jesus says come to me
get away with me and you'll recover your life I'll show you how to take a real rest
then Jesus says this he says walk with me not run but walk with me and work with me do it at
my pace watch how I do it learn I love this phrase love thee learn the unforced rhythms
of grace I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you Jesus says keep company with me and you'll
learn to live freely and light me Jesus says get away with me and you'll recover your life
walk with me watch how I walk walk watch how I love watch how I live and walk with me don't
just believe what Jesus believed do that but also live the way Jesus lived some of you say
you'll understand preacher boy you know like I got a full-time job you're just a pastor you just
work on Sundays you know I gotta I got a full-time job or whatever I don't I don't have time I don't
I literally can't get it all done I can't slow down there's too much moving and I want to say
very respectfully to you that you have time for what you choose to have time for you do you have time
you have time for what you choose to have time for and if I can get up your business just a
little bit the solution is not more time the solution is more of what matters most
is more of what matters most and the reason why most of us don't have time
for what matters is because we're mindlessly spending our life on what doesn't matter
now when people say for example you know I I would read the bible but you know I'm just so
busy I don't have time or I know I should spend more time in prayer but I just don't have time
I don't have time I don't have time I don't have time think about what you're saying
you're saying to the God of this universe the creator you're saying to the sovereign of this
universe our sustainer you're saying to this God who is our judge you don't have time for him
who is the source of every single thing you have who desires an intimate
relationship with him it takes time the most powerful awesome thing in my life today
second to nothing is getting on my face before him and talking to him and listening and sensing his
spirit and my spirit being in oneness with each other and knowing that no matter what I ask I'm
not going to be disappointed no matter what I ask he's not going to get upset no matter what I ask
God is more than sufficient and adequate to meet this hunger within me that he's placed there
he has placed within all of our hearts of hunger the problem is that when a person
doesn't understand what's going on they think if I had this and her and him and that I'd be satisfied
only God can satisfy the human life and you know I could say that ten thousand times and people would
hear it and walk right away trying to fulfill this place for intimacy with something else it
doesn't work it takes time let me ask you this what what's more important than your personal
relationship with him and think about this all of us have certain people we like to talk to
right there's certain people you'd like to talk to and certain people you'd like to
listen to think about this we have the privilege of listening to Holy God he makes it very clear
he will show you the truth about himself he listen he will show you the truth about
himself through his word but he will also show you the truth about himself in life
develop a listening heart a listening spirit and the reason people make wrong decisions
is because they don't listen to him one thing you can bet for sure he will never mislead you
you know why I know that because he is a God of purity righteousness and truthfulness he cannot
deceive he cannot mislead he cannot do anything that would be a contradiction to who he is this
very God is living on the inside of you in the person of the Holy Spirit he's there why because
it is his spirit that speaks to our spirit it is his life connecting to our life you say well but
I'm not I'm not worthy of all that the next time you feel that way you just remember this that
the cross is God's one and final testimony to his awesome unconditional love for you no matter what
he does care about you and he wants to work in your life his awesome grace and love and mercy