Connecting With Jesus

[ Read Even If You’re Busy]

Satan called a world-wide meeting. The huge crowd hushed as he stepped up to speak. “We can’t keep the Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t keep them from conservative values, but we can do something else.” He paused. Everyone listened.

“We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can’t gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining a vital connection through their day!”

“How shall we do this?” shouted his angels. “Simple. Keep them busy, busy, busy in the non-essentials of life and invent un-numbered schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered.

“Tempt them to spend and spend, then borrow and borrow

“Keep them from their children. Convince the wives to go to work and the husbands to work six and seven days a week 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Tell them they are doing it FOR their children. Hah! That one works well. As their family fragments, soon their homes won’t offer an escape from the pressures of work.

“Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear ‘the still small voice.’ Entice them to watch movies, play the radio or DVD player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, DVDs, MP3s, IPods, cell phones, text messages, and CDs going constantly in their
homes. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.

“Fill their homes 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, sweepstakes, mail-order catalogues, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products, services, and false hopes.

“Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week. Don’t let them go out in nature. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.

“Keep them busy, busy, busy!”

“When they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion. Don’t let them encourage or uplift each other, keep those who are the gifted encouragers, especially busy and worn out.

“And above all when they get together keep them from praying for one another. Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for the good of the cause.”

“It will work!”. It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments trying to cause Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy, and rush 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 in his schemes? You be the judge!!

Not a pause for a moment in His presence, but personal contact with Christ, to sit down in companionship with Him—this is our need. Ed 261.1