The barrier of busyness

A significant cause of satiation in seeking knowledge from God is the busyness of modern life. The pursuits of modern people prioritize what has no eternal worth over what does.¹ Few understand that their misprioritization isn’t a matter of church versus the rest of life, but the failure to apply God’s character to the daily tasks in life. God didn’t give us the requirement to earn our daily bread and raise children simply as a constant overhead cost to compete with church. Instead, our temporal lives are meant to be a learning lab where we consistently discover and apply the will of God in practical ways. The problem isn’t just that people don’t think about God in their daily lives,² but that they don’t bother thinking at all. They fill their lives³ with activities that fail to advance their eternal purpose as much as other things would—or, in some cases, fail to advance their eternal purpose at all. In fact, many intentionally overburden themselves in order to have an excuse not to think about their lives or feel guilty about doing less than the best they could. These are problems with dire consequences that the Lord expressly warned against.⁴ It is vital that you think intentionally about how you spend your resources, prioritize what has the greatest longterm effect, and delete from your life anything that does not provide greater benefit than cost.⁵