Being too Busy is a sin.
When you become too busy things are replacing your time with Jesus. And that my friend is a sin. My to do lists were keeping me from getting in the presence of Jesus Christ, God, and the Holy Spirit. Sometimes when living for Jesus you need to pause and make sure your ministering to your family as well as the people who need Jesus. Last night Mic, (my husband) uplifted me with prayer and words of encouragement from the Lord. I get tired, weary, and lost as much as the next person. It was wonderful because as soon as he prayed for me, the peace of God surpassed all my understanding.
“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:7 NIV
The good news is, I don’t need to understand everything. I don’t have to because God already knows all. God’s got it. Why do we feel the need to carry the problems and stresses of the world on our shoulders? Why do we feel the need that we have to live this life and all the craziness with it on our own? I should know by now that the best way to live my life is freely in Jesus. To worship and love on him and pray to him and be in his word. You see I was in the Word almost daily but I was still feeling that there was a lack of satisfaction and peace. God revealed to me I was lacking worship and prayer with him. I needed to nurture that side of my relationship with him. I needed intimacy with Jesus. It’s like in a marriage, I can’t just have conversation with my spouse of “you need to do this and that,” I also need to have intimacy with my spouse. We need to tell eachother we love eachother. We need to encourage and uplift one another. I need to be telling my husband of the good things he has done and thank him for them. I have to nurture the relationship in entirety. Well my spiritual relationship with Jesus is no different, really. We are married to Jesus aren’t we? We the church are the bride of Christ. “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”
Ephesians 5:21-33 NIV
http://bible.com/111/eph.5.21-33.niv
Talk about having a revelation. We are brides to Christ. We are to be married to Jesus in a spiritual sense. That means like any marriage you have to invest into it daily. You have to have intimacy. Obviously I’m speaking about intimacy in a way of worship and prayer.
Sometimes we can become so busy serving God in ministry that we forget that our first ministry is our family. I need to be ministering to my children, my husband, my loved ones.
“This is a true saying: If a man is eager to be a church leader, he desires an excellent work. A church leader must be without fault; he must have only one wife, be sober, self-controlled, and orderly; he must welcome strangers in his home; he must be able to teach; he must not be a drunkard or a violent man, but gentle and peaceful; he must not love money; he must be able to manage his own family well and make his children obey him with all respect. For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God? He must be mature in the faith, so that he will not swell up with pride and be condemned, as the Devil was. He should be a man who is respected by the people outside the church, so that he will not be disgraced and fall into the Devil’s trap.”
1 Timothy 3:1-7 GNT
http://bible.com/68/1ti.3.1-7.gnt
We have to first manage our families before we can become leaders for Jesus. I am thankful my hubby was there to help lead me in a time I was needing some encouragement. I believe I have a gift of encouragement, but sometimes after I am done encouraging others I need some encouragement myself. As the body of Christ we need to encourage one another. If one of us is tired, weary, and need rest, let us go to the word and find the rest God has for us. I am to worship Jesus and just let it soak in and stop trying to do so much on my own power.
After my hubby prayed for me I was instantly filled with the peace of God. I layed in bed with headphones on listening to worship. I listened for about 20 minutes and drifted off to sleep. Although I still woke to take care of Malachi, I have not slept SO peacefully for a LONG time. I woke up at 6:30am awake, laid in bed and put my headphones back in with worship and stayed there until Emmanuel woke and came in around 6:45am. I turned on worship in the living room and now it’s 8:40am and I do not plan on turning the worship off anytime soon. God is lifting my spirit so much. I just need to rest in him. I was trying to do so much on my own strength. But my strength has limits, his strength though, it’s limitless. ❤️
It’s time so slow down. It’s time to be more like Mary in a world who wants us to be a Martha.
Mary Smith Creative 