Ever been too busy and let something important slip by? Let’s face it, not everybody has a personal assistant to remind us about that contract that needed signing, about making that airline reservation before the flight booked up solid, about the option to buy the Brooklyn bridge before noon. When things slip through the cracks, the domino effect begins to be set in motion. Oh my, my, my—your life is soooo busy.
Even before that alarm clock rings, anxiety starts building. You’ve got a million things to do and only time to accomplish half of them, but you’re determined to finish them anyway. Let the emergency room personnel help anyone who gets in your way! The day belongs to you; everyone else who crosses your path is merely a player on Shakespeare’s stage in costume. There’s places to go, people to see, things to do, restaurants to visit, hair appointments, massage appointments, nail appointments, pedicure flashbacks, shopping to catch up on, grocery shopping, prescriptions to pick up, baby sitters to contact, dry cleaning to drop off, doctor appointments to keep, car maintenance updated, veterinary medicine to pick up, see cousin’ what’s-their name in the hospital, address that IRS letter concerning your tax filings, your son’s SAT scores from the university are way overdue or destroyed, read and return all those e-mails and Facebooking and all stuff that’s left on the barn floor! And surely that letter you picked up from the post office didn’t have the acronym FBI on it—surely not!
The world knows you’re busy, you know the world’s busy, but your ‘busy’ is far and away more important than all the other’s busy combined—squared! Your worries are far greater. So where is all this going you might ask? What are you supposed to glean from this brief McMinute lesson? Nothing much! I just wanted someone who reads this {and dies before me} to tell God that once upon a time, some guys wrote devotionals begging people to slow down; read the Bible, and meditate on its message before the clutter of life declared open season and killed them. Recriminations are a poor substitute for preparing for eternity.
“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:28-31 “He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." Psalm 46:10
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