Crazy Busy - Tracts (25 pack) by Kevin DeYoung

Most people feel frazzled and overwhelmed much of the time. We’re distracted and preoccupied in the same sorts of ways—struggling under a crushing weight of work, family, exercise, bills, church, school, friends, and a barrage of requests, demands, and desires. It’s safe to say that on a typical day for most of us, our responsibilities, requirements, and ambitions add upto more than we can handle, whether we admit this or not. THE REAL THREAT The biggest dangers arising from this hectic and frustrating modern life aren’t what we might expect. The most serious threats are spiritual. When we’re crazy busy, we put our souls at risk. Few of us are as safe as we may think. An immediate and obvious spiritual threat is that busyness can ruin our joy. When we’re frantic and frenzied, we’re more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability. Busyness also robs spiritual vitality from our hearts, like seed-growth choked out by thorns in Jesus’s parable in Mark 4. Those thorns, he s