Too Busy?
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 is 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. "Keep them
busy in the non-essentials 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
lifestyle. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family
fragments, soon their home 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 Computers 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 product 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. 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 'em be
involved in soul winning; but 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 convention. The evil angels went eagerly to
their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get more busy and more
rushed, going here and there.
