Are You B.U.S.Y?
The End: One Last Question
Debt Free Living God's Way and Financial Freedom can be yours if you learn and prayerfully apply biblical principles to the material areas of your life. Finances are part of your material life, but so is time. God expects you to be the best possible steward of the time He gives you. Good time management goes hand-in-hand with good money management. Here are some thoughts I pray you will carefully consider as we conclude our Debt Free Living God's Way time together.
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "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 even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them will be broken. So let them go to their churches, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that relationship with Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
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"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 a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"
Satan continued, "Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio, cassette player, or CD whenever they drive. Keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break their union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee table with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogues, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services, and false hopes. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines so the husbands will believe that external beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. Ha! That will fragment those families quickly!"
"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 into nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, 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 and unsettled emotions."
"Go ahead, 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 for the good of the cause. It will work! It will work!"
It was quite a convention. And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get BUSY, BUSY, BUSY and to rush here and there.
I guess the question is: Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge!
One way to define B.U.S.Y is Being Under Satan's Yoke.
Are you B.U.S.Y.?
One day, you will stand accountable to Him for the quality of your stewardship in the area of time management. How are you investing the time He places into your spiritual trust account? Why not consider how BUSY you are now and how BUSY you "should" be.
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Bob Louder is the Founder and President of Christian Financial Ministries (www.good-steward.org). Bob is also the author of the new best selling book, "Debt Free Living God's Way," available only on the Internet (www.debtfreelivinggodsway.org). Since 1987 Bob has helped people in hundreds of churches all across the country and in the European military community learn, understand, apply and pass on "Debt Free Living God's Way" principles and practical applications. He has represented some of the top Christian financial authors and ministries to include Larry Burkett, Dave Ramsey, Christian Financial Concepts, and Crown Ministries.
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