Busy!

December 17

Busy, busy, busy, busy!!!! We have so many things to do. We have so many places to go. We have so much responsibility that we wonder at times if we shall ever be able to manage all that we have taken upon ourselves. Sometimes, we allow ourselves to be imposed upon by other people. Sometimes our hyper activity reflects our own choices—our own compulsion to maintain a frenetic pace.

The Word of God tells us that we are indeed to do everything with which we are charged as though we were doing it for the Lord. We are not to give short shrift to any task to which we have committed ourselves. The question then becomes, to what tasks should we commit ourselves?

We know we have great responsibilities. We have families to support and jobs to perform and careers to manage. We have relationships that require our investment of not only our time but our heart. We cannot neglect the people within the sphere of our influence who are depending upon us. Yet there is but one task with which the Word charges us and that is found in Mark 12:30.

Here Jesus says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength.” He knows if we do that, we will not neglect to hear Him guide us into other areas of responsibility to which He desires that we go, nor will we neglect those precious people to whom we owe due diligence in living God’s truth before them.