Don't Run To The Phone - Run To The Throne!!!


Everyone is running and rushing somewhere, all day, every day
We live in a time where parents are rushing children to school
Husband and wives are running late for work
Bosses deadlines are running behind schedule
Our churches are rushing to get more members
And the members are rushing to build bigger buildings
Families are running out of quality, bonding time
Brothers and sisters are running out of patience
With one another
We use to only leave little notes
For the milkman or the mailman,
But we are in such a hurry now
We are leaving notes for family members...
"Katie, babysit your brother, or
Bill, dinner is in the oven, just put it on 350 for 30 minutes"
And with all the rushing and running and doing,
The devil has robbed us of our spiritual fruit
Seeds were planted, but by harvest time
We had no harvest, no joy, no peace, no love,
No faith, no longsuffering.
We created more problems than we solve; the gossiping, the assumptions,
And our own problems begin to chase us.
By then it has become a mountain and has snowballed,
Getting bigger, as your situation travels downhill at lightening speed;
And we take off running to the phone
To tell our problems to whoever will listen
Our best friend at church, the pastor's wife
That special sister or brother on the Internet
Our next door neighbor, buddy on the golf course, or beauty shop
A high school friend, that really "nice" co-worker
The list just goes on......But WAIT!!!!!!
Don't all these people have their own problems?
There is nothing wrong in confiding in someone,
From time to time, prayer partners are a true blessing from God, but....
Instead of always, always running to the phone - RUN TO THE THRONE!!!!
And yes I mean RUN!!! Fall to your knees in PRAYER!
Tell it to Jesus....

2009©
Evang. E. Buchanan

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