Too Busy For God?

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By: Matt Borja

Have you ever tried praying to the Lord, and for some reason or other, there's just that nagging thing in the back of your mind that you keep thinking about and it's preventing you from praying any further? Could it be that God is feeling left out because everything else has cluttered your life?

I was talking with a friend of mine on AOL Instant Messenger about a dissertation I came across on why we use the King James Authorized Version 1611 Bible. The material and point of views expressed therein only confirmed to me what I already knew to be true. However, my acquaintence regarded the article of less or no priority or importance. The reason? They were just too busy for God.

God wants us to spend time with him. Yet we willingly (often times unconsciously) give ourselves over to the world and the outlets it provides. We spend so much time having decoration contests with our houses and the next door neighbor. We exhaust resources on slick looking cars. We become selfish, want more money and give away years and years of our lives to college and secular schooling that will further enhance our chances of getting that high paying job. After all is said and done, we wonder where our lives went and loathe the days to come.

Granted, there are things we as Christians should do to maintain a good testimony for the lost. Keeping your house in order is a big one and so is fulfilling your responsibility to your employer. These things help to show the lost that life does not just resume as usual after the angels in Heaven settle down from rejoicing over the salvation of someone. In fact, I get so irritated personally (a huge pet peeve of mine) when someone says "well, so much for that" or "back to our normal lives" right after a great revival or Sunday morning preaching. Lord help me, I can't help but think to myself "hey, who do you think you are? the exception to the rule or something?"

In John 15:20 it says that the servant is not greater than his lord. God forbid, we should never ever consider ourselves superior to the almighty God of Heaven. Yet many times we brush off the Lord's dealing in our lives and count it as dung. Our actions say "not your will but mine be done." And our daily lifestyles can be such that it dares to tresspass on such an aweful thought that God is our footstool in that we do our own thing and expect God to bless it. Who are we to put anything else before our Lord and Saviour?

Are you too busy for God these days? Does your prayer closet still exist, or did it end up becoming a storage room for your golf clubs? Has your Bible been read faithfully, or do the pages still stick together from the fresh binding from the manufacturer? And what about your giving in tithes and offerings? Or has that also subsided under your current retirement plan and that new house you just got approved for a loan for? Let's be honest with ourselves now. We ALL can be found guilty of not giving our time, talents and tithes to the Lord. But that doesn't mean that God's done with you.

Rededicating your life back to God and holding true to the commitments you make to God can be a very uplifting and joyful experience if you've fallen out of the will of God. It can come in a simple prayer or thought, but it has to come from the heart and you must be willing to surrender your will and take up your cross as a child of God. Intentions of fulfilling the calling and leadership that God has for you in your life must be present. Who knows, maybe God just wants you to sit tight and bless you until the rapture comes, but you're just not yielding to His will. Whatever God's direction is for your life, no matter how hard or simple, it will never amount to the pain and agony you would've suffered had God shrugged you off and said "maybe I'll save their soul when I get around to it, right now I'm just busy with more important things." Thank God that his thoughts are not our thoughts and that our ways are not his ways (Isaiah 55:8). When the Lord saved your soul from Hell, there was a reason why He kept you around, and that's to do His work...not your work.

Think about it. Are you too busy for God? Tomorrow may never come. You could rededicate your life right now. Should the Lord rapture us all out of here at midnight tonight, as my Pastor would say, "you would be eternally grateful!"