Busy Corners 2/10-11

10-11 Feb 2016 - Busy Corners – Devotion by Dorothy Callies

Mark 1:33-34 “The whole city was gathered together at the door. He healed many…” NKJV.

While I was thinking, looking at my office, wondering how could I be busy doing all this and that, yet I do find time to study the Bible and pray. Plus doing other routine things that require our times to do which was really necessary. Is being busy really normal?  Humm…? I came across this devotion.  Again, amazing grace, God read my thought.  After reading this devotion from ‘Our Daily Bread’, I felt like God had spoken to me.  He refreshed me.  So I want to share this with you from Dennis Fisher who wrote this:

“Is your life too busy? Business deadlines, productivity quotas, and shuttling children to lessons and sporting events can really fill up your schedule.  It’s easy to think, If only I didn’t have so many responsibilities, then I could walk in vital union with God.

Yet C.S. Lewis wisely points out that no one was busier than Christ. “Our model is the Jesus . . . of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this . . . is the Divine Life operating under human conditions.”

We read of Jesus in Capernaum: “They brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed.  And the whole city was gathered together at the door.  Then He healed many” (Mark 1:32-34).  The next day Christ sought out a solitary place and prayed.  There He received direction from His Father to pursue a demanding ministry in another place.  Our Lord communed with His Father and depended on the Spirit to minister through Him.

Is your schedule demanding? Follow the example of Jesus and set aside a specific time for prayer.  Then depend on God’s power to help you meet each day’s demands.”

Poem: The many tasks we face each day

                  Can burden and oppress,

             But spending time with God each day

                  Can bring relief from the stress. –Sper

Song: Let the Lord Have His Way

Let the Lord have His way

In your life every day.

There’s no rest, there’s no peace

‘Til the Lord has His way;

Place your life in His hand

Feel secure in His plan

Let the Lord –

Le the Lord have His way.

(Inspiring Choruses)