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“Ya, I was so busy today I forgot to schedule dinner.” He said this with a grin on his face rushing to his next event.
It was our second year of college and he stuffed his schedule full. I remember thinking, “I wish I was busy and important enough to forget dinner.” Not anymore.
Busyness is an emblem of pride for many. Our subtle complaints can be like raising our hands high and shouting, “Look how much the world needs me!”
It feels good to be wanted and busyness makes you feel that way. But it’s destructive to fuel your self-importance by over-packing your datebook.
Plus, you don’t have to. Jesus resurrected. That is the most important event on your calendar.
His resurrection invites you to participate in his agenda for the world. And that agenda is to restore humanity to its proper form. That form includes the right amount of doing AND BEING.
Our culture praises those who do more than those who BE. So we learn to value excessive doing, going, and accomplishing while neglecting the essential aspect of BEING.
By neglecting couches, quiet, and contemplation, you miss out on your humanity. It’s ok to take time to stop.
We were created to have BEING in our schedule. You can’t experience the good life without making time for this do-less, go-less, and accomplish-less endeavor.
His resurrection confirms it. You can rest in the fact that you can’t avoid death, resurrect yourself, or sustain the world. Jesus tasted death to defeat it.
He proved that he is the renewer of the world and its sustainer. This means the world will be ok without you.
Only by acknowledging this vital reality can you achieve balance and experience the good life according to the resurrection.
By receiving your self-importance from Jesus, you can respond to God and serve the world rather than respond to the world to serve your self-importance.
The distinction is slight, but crucial.
So take time to stop this week. Enjoy not being needed. Enjoy being.
Enjoy the good life.
Thanks,
Aaron