Everyone seems to be busy these days, but the question worth asking is, what difference is our busyness making? What are we shifting, changing, upgrading, and redeeming?
It is possible to be active but not productive. One can be busy without being in business. An individual can be preaching, jumping, and shouting without saying anything of substance. We can run, but going nowhere and dancing when there is no music.
How do we avoid the above?
First, we must pause our obsession with activity and be more concerned about making an actual impact, a difference, and ushering in real transformation through what we do.
We may ask questions like, if I stop what I am doing, would my absence be felt? If your absence means nothing, it is an indication that your presence was of no consequence.
Second, we may sometimes evaluate our activities and busyness to see if what we do solely puts food on our tables or gives us a sense of false importance when actually we aren't making a difference.
When our final day on earth is over, the consequence of our existence won't be measured by how active and busy we were during our lifetime, but by the weight of the impact our lives made that counts in time and eternity, and how much of the future our present contribution shaped.
100 years from now, if Jesus Tarries, would there be anyone interested in reading the books you are busy marketing now for a reference? Would anyone see it as necessary to tell your story? Would the messages you are preaching be something worth revisiting? Would you exit the earth and be forgotten, or would you still be speaking though dead?
We read the epistles of Peter, James, John, and Paul, written thousands of years ago, and we are still hoping to crack the code over them to see through the eyes of revelation what they were and are communicating to us. After 2000 years, that's legacy; that's impact!
Don't just exist, live! Ponder
DrBenard Etta
Visionary
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