I think of the illustration of Mary and Martha. All the things that Martha was doing NEEDED to be done. But she failed to recognize just how temporary her time with Jesus was.

Sometimes we let the task become an end in itself rather than a means to love others and in so doing, be led by the Spirit.

You Wrote….

“Don’t seek other things to be filled with: …….. Busy-ness”

I don’t think Busy-ness is something we seek, but something that we fall into as part of our culture in the USA.

We can also get too busy doing “churchy” things. So much so that we lose sight of the needs of those around us and in our own local community. Some people just need a friend and someone to love and encourage them as we really have no idea what they might be going through. We must make time to pour our lives into others outside of our own comfortable church “group”. We also tend to get so busy serving in “programs” that we think that is enough, and we have done our duty, and rest. I think the current teaching on the body shows that we should be much more intentional toward others “just because” and not just from within the “comfort zone” of our own sometimes very comfortable church programs.

I have always believed it is more important to want to get to know others in the body for “who they are” and not for “what they do”.

We need to sometimes just slow down and ….”Be still to know that I am God”

Everybody show some “intentional spontaneity” to someone today!