A Life Free of Clutter
Your heart will be where your treasure is.
Matthew 6:21
The most powerful life is the most simple
life. The most powerful
life is the life that knows
where its going, that knows where the source of
strength is, and the life that stays free of clutter and
happenstance and
hurriedness.
Being busy is not a sin. Jesus was busy. Paul was
busy. Peter was busy. Nothing
of significance is
achieved without effort and hard work and weari-
ness. Being busy,
in and of itself, is not a sin. But
being busy in an endless pursuit of things that leave
us empty and hollow and broken inside--that can-
not be pleasing to God.
One source
of man's weariness is the pursuit of
things that can never satisfy; but which one of us has
not been caught up in that pursuit at some time in
our life? Our passions, possessions, and
pride--these
are all dead things. When we try to get life out of dead
things, the result
is only weariness and dissatisfaction.
Taken from Max Lucado's Grace for the
Moment
