How distant is too distant? how long is too long? how busy is too busy? how distracted is too distracted?

 

ever wondered these questions?

 

tonight, i did some thought processing of these and more. I sat down, after a near 4 solid weeks of nothing but crazy week after crazy week, and questioned where God was in my life? 

I guess for me, as I know its similar for many others that I talk with a lot, life comes at me fast, and things come and go like a quick read in a picture book without words. its almost like the past 4 weeks have been nothing more than a section of pictures that you often see when you read an autobiography or documentary of a specific event. You know, the part of the book that is about a 3rd of the way through, and they put a bunch of pictures… well I was just there and now I am just getting back to the novel part… the part that has words, and the read is slower.

I don’t know if that image makes any bit of sense, but what I am getting at is the fact that there are seasons of my life that at times feel like they are a whole lot busier than i can even handle… and at others, they seem as if it should be a little easier. ever felt that way? 

The scary thing to realize is that Life doesn’t get a whole lot easier… so says the hundreds of people that tell me this from after learning this from personal experiences. A full time job, a wife, kids, and maybe even second homes, multiple cars, investments and the whole other slew of crazy events that happen throughout life that cause us to become a very distracted and distant child of God.

I am not going to sit here and try to argue that life wasn’t meant to be this crazy… and argue that life was meant to be simple… and pull some line like “take a look in the old testament”. no, what I want to share is what God has really been placing on my heart lately… 

 

He is near. 

We need Him.

 

you see… its not the crazy times in life that we can take a vacation from God… its not the times when we feel like the demands of school, work, commitments and friends give us the freedom to part from God… its these times when we need to fight to be on the same page as Him… its more or less the moments when we need him the most. 

I don’t think that God wants us to sit on a couch and act like a couch potato our whole lives… even if we spent every moment on that couch reading his word…. that is not what he meant when he said… “Live in the world and not of the world”

I think that God wants us to be connected with his people.. engaged, and involved with those who he calls his children. Busyness is an ok thing for God. 

the question is…… is busyness an ok thing for you and me? 

I mean, if we are able to have as meaningful of a week with our relationship with God through the crazy times then when its calm, then busyness is ok… but if the relationship suffers, its going to need some help, maybe busy lives aren’t good.

 

I’m not going to have a lecture on weather or not busy is good… what I want to say is that our lives will do nothing more than get busier and busier… and God is all the while wanting us to run toward him. 

For me, I haven’t been able to do this… in fact, in times I have felt that these crazy weeks cause me to run in a different direction… but that means that the brakes have to be hit….. Life must slow down to let us get off the crazy train we somehow ended up on. We have to figure out which one God is on, and jump aboard. I hate this feeling of distance…. but is too busy causing me to get too distracted which is leading me to become too separated?

 

so, how far away from God is too far away from God? how much love can we resist before we break down because there are not enough hours in the day? how much pain can we cause on ourselves because we are too selfish to get involved with the blessings that God has given us [i.e. the job we have, or the organizations we are involved in... or the commitments we live with.]

 

God wants to see us happy… no doubt. but above all else he wants our heart. He longs for the day that his children hear him shouting from heaven “I LOVE YOU!” 

so… often I catch myself with so much going on, I don’t allow myself to hear that. 

can you hear it? 

 

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