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By Dot Hannah
08/25/14
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Too Busy or Self-Centered?

August 25, 2014

I listened to the shocking news in disbelief, realizing this happens every day. A lady I worked with abruptly died in a car wreck. She was several years younger than me, and already her short life had been snuffed out. I learned she was killed coming home from a bar trying to overcome unhappiness in a way that never works. With the appalling suddenness of her death, I had to stop and consider the brevity and uncertainty of life.

I knew she had problems, but I had by no means realized the gravity of her pain. She was divorced and childless, and I could tell she was very lonely. She was attractive but overweight, and because of this, had very low self esteem. The prospective of the world had convinced her that she was ugly, worthless, and unlovable. Her prolonged conversations about diets and weight seemed to ring out her aching apology to everyone for being overweight. She was her own confidential advisor, telling herself that no one could possibly be thinking about anything else but her weight, when looking at her. Honestly, I thought about her very little at all. I was raw, exhausted, and emotionally depleted with the day to day turmoil in my own life.

I forfeited a divine opportunity to reveal the Key which would have unlocked all her unmet needs, Jesus Christ. As I staggered under my gigantic load, I reasoned that I was too busy. Now, as I face the situation squarely, the sting of disappointment in my sin of neglect is haunting. I was unconsciously captivated in me, that is, self centered. This is the tactic our enemy uses on God’s people constantly. He was lying heavily upon me, and I succumbed to concentrating on the cares of this cold life, ignoring an acutely, hurting person. She was locked up in a depressive prison, but I was locked up in a prison of my own, selfishness. I had a story to tell, and did not tell it. This story was the key to her lock. The keys to my lock have been prayer and repentance.

Regularly inventory the ones God allows to cross your pathway, and ask yourself, “Why?” There is presently a tsunami of shattered and dysfunctional people searching for answers. God has said if we will be about His business, He will be about ours. Someone nearby has a desperate need that God plans for you to bountifully meet. Will you be available or too busy? The real meaning of life is to give to God and others.

“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” NIV, (Luke 12:48)

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