Date: 6/23/2010
Author: Devin
Title: Busyness
June 23, 2010
The chief enemy to kindness is busyness. We have our priorities, our jobs, our duties, our responsibilities…we’re too busy. But if we are too busy to be kind, we are too busy. The Bible says: “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).
Do you remember the story of the Good Samaritan (see Luke 10:30-37)? A man was on a journey and stopped to help a bruised and bleeding man on the side of the road.
He didn’t make excuses because he was on a journey and too busy to stop. He didn’t say it was too dangerous to help a stranger. He didn’t say it was none of his business. Right when he saw him, he didn’t hesitate, he did what he could do. It was a golden moment – and he took it.
All around us are people who are bruised and bleeding. Some are bleeding financially, some emotionally, and some spiritually. And they need you to say, “This is a golden opportunity to help someone, and I’m going to take it right now.”
Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
-Adrian Rogers
I think Adrian Rogers hit the nail on the head in his thoughts above. I don't know that there are many of us who couldn't admit to a guilty plea regarding the ball and chain of “busyness”. The first order of business for most of us on a daily basis is to set a number of plates spinning into motion. Then for the rest of our waking moments in the hours following we jump from one plate to another to try to keep them going. The problem with this daily routine is that we can't spend very much time on one plate because the others will soon stop spinning, thus falling and breaking into a million pieces if we don't tend to them in a timely, rushed fashion.
It seems to me that it would do us all good to allow a few plates to have the same fate as Humpty Dumpty. The difficulty for me is trying to figure out which plate is worth my effort to keep spinning and which ones should I let hit the floor. God's Word tells me that the most important things in this life aren't “things” at all. The most important things in this life always revolve around relationships and my desire to be a servant to those around me. God says the greatest commandments known to man are the 2 simple mandates to love God and to love those fellow humans beings who God created along with me. If we can keep these two “plates” spinning, life will go far beyond rewarding. If we focus on our horizontal and lateral relationships, the most important plates will almost spin on their own. Furthermore, the spinning of these plates will be a pleasure rather than a burden, a blessing rather than a chore. We might even be surprised to find that many of the plates that fall won't break anyway because they were paper (insignificant) all along. Make your choices today. Not paper or plastic, but rather paper or china :)
Go the extra mile - Devin