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WHEN BUSY ISNT PRODUCTIVE · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: I hope you had a great weekend. As we gather
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  Speaker 1: in today for our morning moments with Jesus here on
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  Speaker 1: Aur this is the Life Podcast, as we get ready
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  Speaker 1: for this morning's devotion, I was beginning to think about
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  Speaker 1: busyness and the busyness of life. And I often tell
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  Speaker 1: people when they ask me if I've been busy something
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  Speaker 1: that older gentleman told me many many years ago that
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  Speaker 1: if a person stays steady, they'll rarely be busy. But
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  Speaker 1: there are seasons in our lives, and I've had it,
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  Speaker 1: had such a week last week getting back from Colorado,
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  Speaker 1: when we are very busy in the things that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord kind of pulled me over a little
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  Speaker 1: bit this morning, or actually over the weekend, and we
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  Speaker 1: really began to I've really began to think about and
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  Speaker 1: meditate on that when a time, there's times in our
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  Speaker 1: lives were busy, but when busy isn't productive. And the
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  Speaker 1: key scripture this morning that the Lord brings us to
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  Speaker 1: is Luke chapter ten, particularly in verse forty one forty two,
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  Speaker 1: when we're talking about Mary and Martha and when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came to their house and Jesus said it says this
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  Speaker 1: he said, And Jesus answered and said, unto her, Martha,
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  Speaker 1: Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things, but
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  Speaker 1: one thing is needful, and Mary had chosen that good
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  Speaker 1: part which shall not be taken away from her. Now
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  Speaker 1: there is a difference between being busy and being productive.
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  Speaker 1: We can feel every hour of the day, we can
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  Speaker 1: answer every message, finish every task, run every errand and
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  Speaker 1: take care of everybody else, fall into bed exhausted, and
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  Speaker 1: still wonder what we actually accomplished that day. You ever
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  Speaker 1: been there, See, because what happens is movement doesn't always
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  Speaker 1: mean progress. Just because we're actively moving and doing things
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily were productive at that moment. See, Martha was moving,
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  Speaker 1: she was serving, she was working, and there was nothing
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  Speaker 1: necessarily wrong with what she was doing. The problem was
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  Speaker 1: that her activity had become a distraction from what mattered
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  Speaker 1: most in that moment. That's important in that moment, See,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, Martha, and Martha thou art careful and troubled. Careful,
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  Speaker 1: They're being anxious and troubled about many things. So it's
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  Speaker 1: important to understand this that Jesus wasn't saying that what
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  Speaker 1: she was troubled. She was troubled about many things all
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  Speaker 1: the time, just at that particular moment. I think many
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  Speaker 1: of us understand that feeling. Sometimes we stay so busy
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  Speaker 1: doing good things that we don't have time for the
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  Speaker 1: best things in life. Sometimes we can even become so
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  Speaker 1: busy doing things for God that we neglect simply spending
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  Speaker 1: time with God. And here's something worth thinking about today.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about this, and the Lord just really impressed
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  Speaker 1: on me to share this this morning. Not everything that
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  Speaker 1: gets your attention deserves your attention wants you to think
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  Speaker 1: about that all day long. Not everything that gets your
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  Speaker 1: attention deserves your attention. Some things feel urgent simply because
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  Speaker 1: they are the loudest or the most visible. At the
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  Speaker 1: moment the phone rings, the notification sounds, someone needs something,
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  Speaker 1: another responsibility gets added to your list, and before long,
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  Speaker 1: we are reacting to everything around us instead of intentionally
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  Speaker 1: living the life God is placed before us. Mary chose
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  Speaker 1: differently in this situation. She sat at the feet of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: She understood that sometimes the most productive thing that we
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  Speaker 1: can do is to stop moving long enough to hear
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  Speaker 1: what God is trying to speak to us. Maybe productivity
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  Speaker 1: isn't always getting more done. Maybe sometimes it's about making
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  Speaker 1: sure we are doing what exactly matters the most at
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  Speaker 1: that moment. So before you feel empty spaces in your
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  Speaker 1: day to day, ask the Lord, this is this something
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do? Or is this simply something
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  Speaker 1: I have allowed myself to become busy doing. There will
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  Speaker 1: always be another task Church, There will always be something
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be done, and most of those things
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  Speaker 1: may be very important. But there are moments with God,
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  Speaker 1: moments with family, moments of rest, moments of ref and
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  Speaker 1: yes even moments for yourself that you cannot recover once
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  Speaker 1: they've passed. Shore to day. Don't measure your day simply
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  Speaker 1: by how much you accomplish. Measure it by whether you
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  Speaker 1: gave your time and attention to what mattered most today.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes slowing down can be how God gets us moving
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. So today you be safe, you
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  Speaker 1: be strong, and you be blessed. And before you get
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  Speaker 1: too busy, make sure you're productive. Lords will will see
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  Speaker 1: you back here again tomorrow, and until then, have a
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  Speaker 1: great day.