Are You 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
nonessentials 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 a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.
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 PCs going constantly in their homes. 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 table 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 catalogues, sweepstakes, and every
kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, 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 week."
"Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. 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 emotion."
"Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning. But crowd their lives with
so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. 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. And the evil angels went eagerly to their
assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and to rush
here and there.
I guess the question is: has the devil been successful at his scheme?
You be the judge! Friends, this message was sent to me by someone who cares
and I thought I could share it with you. Please take heed of the message it
brings:
B - Being
U - Under
S - Satan's
Y - Yoke
Are you BUSY?
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