Un-busy

A mentor of John’s said “The more ‘successful’ you get, the slower you need to walk through a room.”  A reminder that though busy, we’re never more important than the people we serve.

Lately everyone writes about the problem of being too busy. 

Because almost everyone IS too busy. 

We wear busy like a badge.  We complain about being too busy, but we do it in a way that lets people know we’re important.  And although we complain, if we’re honest, it scares us when we’re not busy.  What if we’re actually dispensable?  Not as valuable to the world as we’d like to think?

 

When we’re busy Satan whispers “You are SO important.  You are the ONLY one who can do this job. You have to answer that phone call or email or everything will fall apart.”

I’ve been that busy person, but right now I’m not.  I’m not busy.  I don’t have a job and I don’t have any idea where God is leading or what my next step should be.  There, I said it.  And saying I’m not busy feels like saying “I’m not important”.  Ever been there? 

I know I’m not the only one.  There are others in a season of enforced “un-busyness”.  People, like me, who are between jobs, or battling illness, or are in circumstances that have forced them to stop.  And Satan whispers “You’re not good enough.  You have NOTHING to offer.  You are the uninvited guest at the party of life.” 

So, what would Jesus say to each of us?  What is the truth He would speak into our lives to correct the lies of Satan? 

I’m wondering if maybe when we’re busy we might need to take the time to read Job 38 (“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundations?”)

And then, walk slowly through the room.

And when we’re not busy, maybe Psalm 139 is a good reminder (“…your works are wonderful…my frame was not hidden from you…All the days ordained for me were written in your book…”)

And then keep walking slowly through the room.

What do you think?