Satan's Got You BUSY

My mom forwarded this email to me. It is scary to think that this is what is behind all of our busy schedules. Are we being sucked in by the devil unawares? Read the whole thing, you'll be glad you did. It's worth a few minutes in your busy schedule, trust me.

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In
his opening address he said, "We can't keep
Christians from going to church. We can't keep them
from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We
can't even keep them from forming an intimate
relationship with their Savior. Once they gain that
connection with Jesus, our power over them is
broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have
their covered dish dinners, but steal their time, so
they don't have time to develop a
relationship with Jesus Christ. This is what I want
you to do", said the devil: "Distract them from
gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining
that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted. "Keep
them busy in the nonessentials 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 each
week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
empty lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their children.
As their families fragment, soon, their homes will
offer no escape from the pressures of work!
Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear
that still, small voice. 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 home 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 tables 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 magazines and
TV so their husbands will believe that outward
beauty is what's important, and they'll become
dissatisfied with their wives; wives will be too preoccupied with lossing weight.
Keep the wives too
tired to love their husbands at night. Give them
headaches too! If they don't give their husbands the
love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.
That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from
teaching their children the real meaning of
Christmas. Give them an Easter bunny so they won't
talk about his resurrection and power over sin and
death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.
Have them return from their recreation exhausted.
Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect
on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks,
sporting events, plays, 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."

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they
have no time to seek power from Jesus. 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!"

It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to
their assignments causing Christians everywhere to
get more busy and more rushed, going here and there.
Having little time for their God or their families.
Having no time to tell others about the power of
Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has
the devil been successful at his scheme?

You be the judge! Does "busy" mean:
B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?
Pass this on, (if you aren't too BUSY)!