Idolatry of Busyness
Through the Eyes of Romans
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Are you running a race around the game board? Constantly running from one square to the next to gain money, fame, and houses? More is better. As you run around collecting money you start slowly feeling depleted, you can’t keep up with all that you have worked for and don’t enjoy what you have. Just as feel you can’t do anymore you try even harder to obtain your ultimate happiness. More can fit in the schedule, if you just add that one thing, you will finally be happy. If you just get to that one point you will stop and enjoy the busyness of all you have created. Only, you stumble and end up in proverbial jail. But, why? You are doing your best to create all that you want in life. It just never is enough, no matter what you try it is never enough mentally, physically, and spiritually.
What you failed to realize is in the third round of the game, you traded your God card for a busy card. You traded in God for personal ambition and seeking self-happiness. At the point the God card got put aside because you got too busy and unremittingly said if you just got through the day, the week, the month, that you would get with God and reconnect. If you could just finish this busy period in life, you will fall back in line with God. But somehow, someway, busyness keeps getting priority and God is told to wait, wait just a little longer. And before you know it, you are lost in a sea of game cards, going around and around. You feel as if you are being squeezed to death, that if you went to preverbal jail, you would feel relieved, because maybe just maybe you could sit for a minute. If you could just get a minute to figure things out all would be fine.
The truth is the second God got traded, you instantly lost the game. The only hope is to fold up the game board and throw it away. The people who lose the game of life, are the people who think that there is a game. Our God is a sovereign God. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. When we think we can maneuver the middle and still end in the same place, we have been deceived. Our God is a loving and jealous God. The second we take life into our own hands we grieve Him. So, earnestly take this book to heart and construct God to be the center of your life.
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About the Book
There is a mass epidemic happening right now in Christian lives—the idolatry of busyness. The well-veiled contagious compulsion to be busy is replacing God as the Father and making oneself into an idol.
Ask yourself these questions:
Do you find yourself complaining about being busy all the time?
Does your busyness prevent personal time with God?
Are you struggling to keep up with everyday life?
Do you see busyness as a status symbol of success?
Idolatry of Busyness: Through the Eyes of Romans applies a lens of busyness using Paul’s principal teachings in the book of Romans. It focuses on such topics as
assessing what modern-day idolatry looks like,
identifying righteous, and
learning how to overcome busyness.
About the Author
Jaclyn Zahn started out her adult life as a social studies middle school teacher in Colorado. Not long after she began teaching, she decided she didn’t like the repetitiveness of the teaching profession, so she opted to leave it. At that point, she attended St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. US News and World Report ranked St. Edward’s University as one of the ten best colleges in the West; it has a wonderful post-bachelor’s degree program in counseling.
After graduating with the highest of honors, Jaclyn gained accreditation as a licensed professional counselor. Shortly after obtaining her master’s degree, she devoted herself to Christ. In search of her new identity in Christ, she spent an intense nine months under the discipleship of Rev. Linda Chandler, from whom she learned what it truly means to follow Christ. From this point on, she married a supportive husband and had two wonderful children. She has moved quite a bit in the last decade, living in such varied places such as Houston, Japan, and currently the Middle East. An avid traveler, she has visited over eighteen countries in the past five years.