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The Cure For Hyper-Active Christianity
Brian Mashburn
September 1, 2013
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Hyper-Active Christians
"Martha, Martha. You are worried and upset about many things." - Luke 10:41
Have you ever been here? Busy, working hard, doing what's right, what is expected, what you're supposed to, what is asked of you, what is needed, but you find yourself worried and disturbed? I have.
What's more, I was so "justified". And based on what is appropriate, acceptable, expected, assumed, fair, and right in the culture we have created, there is not a human being that would disagree with me.
But in the Kingdom Christ created, well, the King takes issue, not with my complaint, but with me.
Me. The King-on-Death-Row says that the problem is with me. That I'm too focused on "many things", he says. "Only one thing is needed," he says (Luke 10:42). Evidently, it is not the demands on me, the people with me, or the circumstances around me, but me - and my being worried and upset about many things that needs to be addressed.
If there is a "spirit of the age" that we are swimming in, something that steals the Kingdom from us (sometimes in the very name of the Kingdom), it is this...
Busyness. I want Christians to be active in their lives. But far too many are hyper-active in their lives.
No one had more demands and difficult circumstances than Jesus.
How did he cope? More and more, both in my study and in experience, I believe the secret of Christ's outwardly impactful, but inwardly peaceful life of activity lies in these words: "Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed." (Luke 5:16)