busy...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how busy we are. Our world is flooded with things to do, things to achieve, stuff to prove, material things to gain. I-pods, work, homework, cell phones, friends, family, college plans, sport games, clubs, dances... there is pressure from every angle. Of course all these things are good in and of themselves, but when we let them rule over us, we enter a dangerous zone. A place where we are seperated not only from ourselves, our loved ones, but also our God.

Think about it, how often have you had to stay home and study for a test instead of go to youth group. Or when was the last time you went to your friends for advice instead of prayer. I'm not trying to push blame or point a condemning finger, I would be the first one to be blamed or condemned if I were doing that. What I'm saying is that to often we look to worldly things to show us the path we should follow. All the while our Saviour is knocking at our hearts door waiting, yearning for us to answer and to fall humbly at His feet. All the things we do, all the "works" we try to achieve, will never satisfy our need for God. It is by God's grace that we are made whole, that we are saved from all the things that try to take our attention away from Him.

Ephesians 2: 8 says

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."

God has given us salvation, He wrapped up a gift in swaddeling clothes and layed it down in a manger so that the gift could grow and eventually die on a cross to save us from our sins. Our sins of gossip, slander, hatred, adultery, being to busy for God, hating ourselves... All by grace. Rest in God's abundant grace and peace.

Peace In Christ~
Kimberlee Richards