TOO BUSY!!
Submitted by Stewart
A Van Dine
Subject: Satan's meeting
(read even if you're busy)
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address
he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't
keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even
keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior. Once
they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish
dinners, but steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship
with Jesus Christ."
"This is what I want you to do", said the devil: "Distract
them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection
throughout their day!"
"How shall we
do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to
spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands
to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
empty lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families
fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of
work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still,
small voice."
"Entice them
to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the
TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it
that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music
constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards."
"Flood their
mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every
kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and
false hopes."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands
will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become
dissatisfied with their wives."
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too!"
"Put TV personalitys in front of their eyes instead of good conversation between the husband and wife at night."
"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."
"Give them an
Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over
sin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation."
"Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."
"Keep them busy,
busy, busy!"
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to
seek power from Jesus."
"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."
"It will work!"
"It will work!"
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing
Christians everywhere to get more busy and more rushed, going here and
there. Having little time for their God or their families. Having no time
to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. I guess the question
is, has the devil been successful at his scheme?
You be the judge! Does "busy" mean:
B-eing
U-nder
S-atan's
Y-oke?
Hopefully you weren't to BUSY so you could read this!
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