"Hey Dawn, how ya been?" Oh fine, just busy!.....How many times have you heard that answer? I have lost count...literally, lost count. For the past couple of years, it seems that is the trite answer from everyone! I'd ask someone the question, "how ya doin?", and literally expect them to say...."oh, just busy," and they did!
It seems to me, in the spirit world, the enemy has ever-so-gently laid a veil over us, Americans for sure, but possibly the entire world...a veil of busyness. Even I, a homemaker with no time-clock to punch everyday, have felt this same "busyness" that people who work 70 hours a week feel...doesn't that seem a little suspicious to anyone? EVERYONE IS SO BUSY!
What really amazes me, is that when I think about my parents' generation and my grandparents' generation...I don't remember ever hearing that answer to the question, "How are you?" I really can't remember that at all. What I do remember is that, during the summer, my aunts and their lady friends on the block would sit around the kitchen table for hours during the day, drinking iced tea and smoking cigarettes while they told us kids to go outside and play....goodness! I don't see any of that happening today, ever!
It's also remarkable to me that today, we have more conveniences than ever before in the history of time. Literally, at our fingertips, we can shop online, order pictures, pay bills, just about anything a person might need, is at the tips of their fingertips 24/7, 365 days a year! So, why then today, do we have so much less time to visit with people, accomplish everyday errands, spend quiet time with God and even just be a family? Isn't that mind-boggling? What is going on here, people?
My theory, as I mentioned earlier, is that the veil of deception and busyness is covering our eyes and ears to the truth. So, we continue on with our day-to-day activities in a robotic fashion to the point of utter desensitization. We THINK this normal, because everyone beside us is doing the same thing! If we're not "BUSY"...then what are we doing? Just lying around on the couch eating bon-bons everyday? Huh? We've all got to be BUSY or we might seem like we're loafing!
Well, today, at lunch, my friend Tammy and I discussed this very issue and we've decided we may have a part in this....I believe that words have the power of life and death...Proverbs 18:21 says The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. NLT~~I believe that every time I've said, "Oh, I'm just busy, so busy," I have opened the door for the enemy to usher in his little "Busy Demon" to torment me, push me faster, and devour the sweet time God has given me. So, today~I commit the word B-U-S-Y into the dictionary of four-letter words; and we all know what's in there: BAD WORDS WE DON'T WANT TO SAY! :) I pray God will convict my heart to think before I speak the four-letter word.... " _usy" so as NOT to give the enemy an open-door policy with my time, energy or attitude...
From now on, I am not "_usy". . .I am BLESSED!
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