STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES

               These are on our road.         

 
Good morning to you on this beautiful 
day that the Lord has made!

Wow! I didn't realize how long it has been since I wrote on this blog. It was almost 3 weeks ago on my daughter's 30th birthday. 

Boy time flies! They say when you are having fun. I have had such a busy month of March. As I have said before life is supposed to get less busy when you get older, right? It hasn't happened yet. I am still busy as ever. I do always spend time with my Lord in the morning every day but there is always too much to do. 
Is that satan trying to take our focus off Jesus?  I have heard that, and I want to share part of a post I made (from Sept. 2014) that I have shared a couple of times, but it is worth remembering. And then I will post a few spring pictures and I just moved them from the bottom to the top. I will also post the BUSY words instead of giving you a link to go to it.

"Being Under Satan's Yoke

1 Peter 5:8

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour".

Introduction

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the Truth but we can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.

So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that relationship with Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.

Work Of Satan's Angels

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6 - 7 days a week, 10 - 12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear Christ speaking to them through His Word. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CDs, and their PCs going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-Biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee table with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services, and false hopes. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazine covers so that husbands will believe that external beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. HA! That will fragment those families quickly!"

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."

"Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning. But crowd their lives with so many "good" causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause. It will work! It will work! they all said."

It was quite a convention. The evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy, and to rush here and there, going to and fro.

Conclusion

I guess the question is this: has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge! Brethren, please take heed of the message it brings:

B - Being
U - Under
S - Satan's
Y - Yoke

Are you "BUSY"?"

Well, here it is: are you too busy?

I dare say that I am. Shame on me. Help me to take time to stop, put my focus on you, Jesus, and smell the roses. Forgive me Lord!

Have a wonderful day!

Lesbear