Sometimes there is so much going on that even the little things that had seemingly become a constant part of your life can be put on hold. Take twitter for example… Over the past week, I have tweeted only 8 times as opposed to the previous week when I tweeted 12 times and 22 times the week before that. It’s not that I had less to say, I was just too busy to share my thoughts with the world.
Not updating twitter is not a huge deal. It’s not even a big deal when I don’t post to my blog for nearly two weeks. What is a big deal is when the busyness of life and work get in the way of your time with God. If you’re a part of the secular work force you might think it’s easy for those of us that work in the church to find/make time with God, but that is far from the case. At least for me and some other church workers that I’ve talked to about this subject, it is easy for us to put off our personal time with God with excuses like “I’m doing God’s work anyway,” or “We had staff devotions on Wednesday, so I’m good for the week.”
Over the past week, I’ve noticed that it has even been hard to use those excuses in the midst of how busy I’ve been. Yes, I’ve been doing God’s work, but the nature of the work I’ve been doing hasn’t given me the the feeling of that connection (mostly because it has been all prep work without seeing the fruits of my labor yet). In the midst of being busy, a once-per-week staff devotional is not enough to keep you on track spiritually.
I’ve been too busy for God. That’s a scary thing to say. The sermon series we are starting this week at North Way is called “No Vacancy,” emphasizing through the next for weeks the feelings of being “Too ______ for God.” It seems that we’re always diving into a series that I need to hear at just the right timing. I think we can all fill that blank with something at some point in our lives. Lee Strobel will be kicking off the series this weekend and I hope that you’ll join us at one of our 3 campuses or watching/listening online throughout this series.