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Today’s devotional: are we too busy to help others? - The Gospel.com Blog
Everybody’s busy these days—it’s just a fact of life. Between our careers, families, church activities, and other social responsibilities, there’s never a shortage of something that we could (or should) be doing.
All of the above things are important. But is all that busyness hindering our ability to serve Christ? In this Daily Encounter devotional, Richard Innes describes an experiment conducted on a seminary campus. Three different groups of students were each given a different task:
[The professor] gave the first group envelopes telling them to proceed immediately across campus to Stewart Hall. He told them that they had 15 minutes and if they didn’t arrive on time, it would affect their grade. A minute or two later, he handed out envelopes to five others. They were also to go over to Stewart Hall, but they had 45 minutes. The third group had three hours to get to Stewart Hall.
The students weren’t aware of it, but the professor had arranged for three drama students to meet them along the way. Close to the beginning of their walk, one of the drama students had his hands on his head and was moaning aloud as if in great pain. About half way to Stewart Hall, on the steps of the chapel, the seminary students passed a man who was lying face down as if unconscious. Finally, on the steps of Stewart Hall, the third drama student was acting out a seizure.
In the first group of students, those who had only 15 minutes to get across campus, no one stopped to help. In the second group, two students stopped to help. In the last group, the one that had three hours for their assignment, all of the students stopped to help at least one person. The professor had clearly shown these seminarians that hurry hinders ministry.
Read the full devotionals at ACTS International.
Would you have stopped to help any of those people if you were in a hurry? In the busyness of our everyday lives, let’s make sure we aren’t passing by opportunities to serve others and reflect Christ to the world.
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You can’t fool God’s Spirit. If God’s spirit leads one to stop and offer asssitance to a person in need, then one will be compelled to do so. I don’t think this experiment proves much of anything. We must make a conscious choice every day to allow God access to our hearts and minds and in doing so will allow God’s Spirit to guide our actions.
Even if we are too busy in our life we can help others if we will allow Jesus to guide us and help us in our daily work….
I think this experiment says that even if the Holy Spirit commands you to do something, are you too busy to stop and listen? Hebrews 4:1 says, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.” (NKJV) God calls us to enter into a rest while we labor for him and even tells us to FEAR if we don’t enter into it. I think many times we just work, work, work, work and never let God do the work. When is God going to work if we are constantly trying to do it all? It’s important to enter into that rest while you work and let God move and I think often times as Christians we ignore that.