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From one of those emails that come around with an unknown author.  It seems to be an illustration of the devil’s plan to keep us so busy with stuff that we do not take the time to be in His Word and develop an intimate relationship with Him.

 

One day the devil called a worldwide convention of his evil demons and said this.  “We can’t keep the Christians from going to heaven, but we can keep them from forming an intimate relationship in Christ.  If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.  So here’s what we do.

 

Let’s steal their time, so they can’t gain any strength in Jesus Christ.  Let’s distract them by keeping them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds.  We’ll over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice (of the Holy Spirit).

 

We’ll entice them to play the radio or cassette player (Ok, I know it is sort of old!) whenever they drive, to keep the TV, the DVD player, and their CD’s going constantly in their homes.  And we’ll see to it every store and restaurant in the world plays music constantly jamming their mind to break that union with Christ.

 

We’ll fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers and pound their minds with the news twenty-four hours a day.  We’ll invade their driving moments will billboards and flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues and every newsletter and promotional offering promising false hopes.

 

We’ll even get them to be excessive in their entertainment or recreation and send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and movies so they’ll return exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week.

 

And even when they meet for spiritual fellowship, we’ll involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion.  Why, we’ll crowd their lives with so many things that they have no time or energy to seek power from Christ.

 

It was quite a convention in the end.  And the demons went away eagerly causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there.  Don’t forget what “busy” means. B-eing U-nder S-atan’s Y-oke.  Has the devil been successful at his scheme?  You be the judge.

 

Perhaps the examples need to be updated with the times.  But I believe you get the idea of how busyness robs us of time with the Lord.  He desires that you spend time with Him, in His Word, talking to Him about your day, about the things that make you happy and sad. As the story said, you need to examine your time spent with Him and decide what you need to do.

 

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