We have been fed this lie that being busy is a good thing.  I think as a society we have become addicted to being busy.  We think we have to be busy all the time.  It is to the point when someone asks us “How are you doing?” A common response has been “busy.”  When has this answer become ok.  And in my opinion it is a masked answer for how we really are doing.

There are seasons where we will be busy and this is enviable.  But when busy becomes part of our lifestyle is where we get it wrong.  Because if we are always busy there is a time where you will burnout from always being so busy.  You can only go so long before you will crash from being busy.  You will not have time to do the things that fill you up.  That help take care of you and your sanity.  And we don’t have time for the relationships that are important for us.

Resting and not being caught in this hamster wheel of busyness is good for you as a whole especially emotionally.  Being in the hamster wheel of busy there is an anxiety that comes with it because you have to always think about what is next.  You miss the small blessings and miracles that are right in front of you in your day to day life.  I can say this from personal experience.  If I am not well emotionally, it throws the rest of my life off track and not seems to works well.  If we are always busy, we are not taking the time to process what is going on with us and around us.  I know when I do not take the time to process emotionally it is a recipe for disaster.  Maybe not right away but eventually.

When we are always busy, things get missed because we can’t do everything well.  When we try to so everything, we usually are operating outside of our gifts because we are trying to do everything.

The other thing about buying into the lie of having to always be busy, we rely on ourselves much more than we are suppose to.  We don’t take the time to see if there is someone else in your life that would be better suited for the task than you.  And we also tend not to take the time to seek and trust God.  What if God doesn’t give you an answer before you need an answer?  We tell ourselves it is easier to rely on ourselves and not on God or anyone else.  We are created for community with God and others.

When God created the earth, He put a day of rest in for a reason.  He knew that we need  to rest so that we can be productive for the rest of the week.  He even to took a day of rest when He created the earth.

“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” Genesis 2:2-3

So is your busyness for a season or is it a lifestyle?  And is it a mask to cover up something else you don’t want to deal with?