Are you "Busy"?

So on Sunday when I went to my welfare meeting there was a wonderful spiritual thought shared that has stuck with me and has made me think about what I do with my time! Satan wants to distract us from gaining hold of our Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout our days! How could he do that?

1. Keeping us busy with nonessentials of life and by inventing innumerable schemes to occupy our minds.

2. Tempt us to spend, spend, spend and borrow, borrow, borrow!

3. Pursuade wives to work long hours and husbands to work even longer so we can afford our empty lifestyles!

4. Keep us from spending time with our children. As our families fragment, our homes will no longer be an escape!

5. Overstimulate our minds so we can't hear the still small voice.

6. Involve us in gossip and small talk at our church meetings so we leave with troubled consciences.

7. Keep us busy busy busy!

We will croud our lives with so many good causes that there will be no time left to seek power from our Heavenly Father! Without His guidance and counsel we will work off our own strength, sacrifice our health and families for the good of the cause of Satan!

I guess the question is, has Satan been successful at his scheme?

You be the judge! Does BUSY mean...

B= Being

U=Under

S=Satan's

Y=Yoke

This certainly made me take notice of the things I tend to occupy my mind and time! Can we honestly say that we are not "Busy"? Everyone of us is busy with life but are we putting effort in reaturning to our Heavenly Father by filling our lives with reading our scriptures, having Family Home Evening, praying sincerily, attending our church meetings faithfully, reading the lessons before our church meetings to go better prepared, giving service to those in need, etc. Are we "busy" doing the things we need to be to return to live with Him again or are we "busy" doing things that Satan is tempting us with?

I would encourage any of you that read this to be better! Don't be so "busy" with your lives that you are neglecting the one area that needs it the most... the Spiritual Side! I will work at this as well this week! Good Luck and Be sure to let me know how it is going!