I’m a person who likes making lists; I feel I achieve a lot more that way. But in all my years of list-making I have never completed the list on the designated day. A number of jobs have had to be transferred to the next day. Do I control the lists or do they control me? I now acknowledge that I will never catch up.
Busyness is a mindset. These days multitasking is admirable. We are expected to rush on from one thing to the next. We tend to think that when this busy period of life has passed, the next period will be quieter. Not so, there are always so many demands. But by rushing in are we missing the enjoyment and blessings of today? Today is unique, it will never come again. Yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and there is no guarantee that it will. We must work hard but also be still. Many jobs are essential, but we need to have some rest. Just ten minutes on the bed, not reading, not listening, not watching will give reward over and over again. Just relax and be still, don’t even pray, that can be more hard and demanding work!
God has given us time to work and yet time to enjoy. Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time and a season for everything. Even Jesus became tired and had to rest. He fell asleep immediately on entering the boat on the lake in spite of twelve noisy, rowdy companions and threatening storm. If He needed to be still, so do we.