I'm Too Busy For God

I have had several people ask me these last several weeks when I was going to do my next blog post. My answer is usually along the lines of, "I'm trying, but I've just been really busy." I feel like that is always my answer to everything these days. I have sat down to write this blog so many times it's not even funny. Being the perfectionist that I am I feel like I need to get it just right, so I keep putting it off. I end up doing ten million other things that I have to do so I just don't have time to do it, or when I finally do have time I'm too tired. I know many of you out there feel like me. Like there just isn't enough hours in the day. Or maybe you're a stressor like me. Or maybe you even let your organizing and planning become a bad thing like I sometimes do. If I don't have everything planned and set I freak out. I have to know every little thing that is going on every single second of the day. It can become a nightmare sometimes. Quite often I sit down and just stare at my planner trying to figure out what I need to schedule, and if I have time to do everything.

Either "busy", "stress", "worry", or "anxiety" should be my middle name. Or all four. I find myself so stressed over the stupidest things. I end up piling way too many things into my busy days even when I know I can't do it all. This causes so much more stress and anxiety that is extremely unnecessary. Many times I even feel busy when I'm just sitting on the couch drinking coffee. Even though I'm just sitting there, my brain still goes crazy thinking about all the stuff I should be doing. As I lay in bed at night I reflect on my day, or my week and I almost always am disappointed. I feel unhappy, I feel like I should have done something differently, I worry about what I have to do the next day and if I'll even have the time. The other day as I was reflecting and thinking about these things I realized I haven't opened my bible since the beginning of August. And that is when I realized I've even started telling God I'm too busy for him.

When I decided I would write this post about being a busy person, I thought there would be people that could relate to me. At least I'm hoping I'm not the only one out there doing these things. It is one thing to be too busy to get everything done in one day, but I've begun cutting God out completely. During my winter break from school I found myself still consumed with stress and worry. I felt overwhelmed with the things I had to do and the fact that I just didn't have enough time to do them. I've been telling God that I can handle all this stress and worry on my own. I've been telling him he is too small. I find myself making excuses not to attend church.
And many times that excuse is, "I'm too busy", or "I'm too tired from being too busy." I feel like I'm becoming someone I never thought I would be. I feel like I'm disappointing my God. I feel like I'm just too busy, too stressed, too worrisome, too everything. Does anyone else feel that way?

I believe some of you do, and as I write this and as you read this I hope I help us both. I decided the first place I needed to start was in The Word. I have to get back to the basics. I have to start asking God for help. I have to realize I can't do it all on my own. 

We don't like to admit it all the time, but almost everyone at some point feels like they just want to give up. It doesn't always have to be because we are busy from doing things. It can be from being filled with hurt and pain, overwhelmed with family matters, being anxious or nervous. Whatever your reason for feeling like this is, this verse helps, by telling us all we have to do is ask God for help and He will help.

Matthew 11:28 - Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

For those who worry. THIS IS ME!!! I am the person who will worry about something that may or may not happen. If there is a possibility for something to go wrong you can guarantee it that I am curled up in a corner somewhere crawling out of my skin from worrying so much. These verses flat out tell us to stop doing this. God knows what is going to happen and he will take care of us. We need to just rely on him, and take one day at a time.

Matthew 6:25-34 (Too long to write all of them. Go look it up!) Here is Verse 34 - Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Ever feel like your are just melting away in a giant world that passes you by? Well read this chapter. God is mighty, and God is with us!

Psalm 46

Sometimes it is just easier to go with the flow. To just do what everyone else is doing. Why should we add that much more stress to ourselves by trying to be different? This is not what we should be thinking, although it is what we (I) end up doing 90% of the time. I feel like it's too hard and too much to try to stand up for God, read my bible, go to church, and say no to temptation. However The Bible tells us we should do otherwise.

Romans 12:2 - Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I could go find verse after verse to post on here, but my main point of all this is that we NEED God. Many of us will probably always have problems with stress and being too busy to get everything done. But we should never be too busy for God. We should always find that time to talk to, pray to, worship, thank, and love our God. He deserves every bit of it. And not only should we do it because he commands us to, but it will help us feel so much better.

So you may be wondering about why I put these pictures in. All of these pictures I took. Some are from my backyard, some are from across the world, and some are from driving down the road. However they all have one thing in common, they are all pictures of God's beautiful creation. HE did all that. HE painted that beautiful sky. HE shaped those mountains. HE is wonderful. When I look at these pictures I am in awe; I feel his mighty presence. Do you?