Busy

I don't remember who said it to me, but it was years ago and the thought stuck. Busy means burdened under Satan's yoke, they said and at the time, I could see the truth in this. I should never be "busy", I thought. Years have past since then and while I think that phrase will still preach, I no longer think it is true

In fact, I think at many points in my life busyness and faithfulness have gone hand in hand. It is being idle which has been the problem. Yes, we can worship God by being still an knowing that he is God as it says in Psalms 46:10. But, usually that stillness is the catalyst we need to listen and when you listen to God, when I listen to God, he has things for me to do. This isn't an anxiety causing, peace robbing endeavor. That would be taking something which God intended and twisting it. Instead, it is finding how you, how I am to busy about the Lord's work.

The Proverbs are full of advice and commands to work, the benefits of work and the vice of laziness. Proverbs 18:9 talks us that being lazy is akin to being a destroyer of things. Proverbs 21:25 tells the sluggardly he is unhappy because his hands refuse to work. Proverbs 10:4-5 says if you work you will have money and pride, but if you sleep instead you will be poor and bring shame.

Not only do the proverbs warn us from being idle, but other verses in Bible do to. We see a parable in a few of the gospels about using the talents God (the master) gives us, not to be lazy with them. Colossians 3:23 tells us to work as though we are working for God, instead of men. Even from the beginning, God established that man should work the earth. We were crafted to work, be busy, if you will.

As you might have guessed, I write all this because today is a day of being busy for me. I got up and started with my head down because I had a bunch of meetings and when the work day was done, I had another meeting at church. The truth is, this is my job or my call, who Am I to be unhappy with the things God has entrusted me with? I'm not, as I might have let myself feel, burdened under Satan's yoke, instead I'm blessed until ... Stewardship... Salvation... How about I'm just blessed.