How busy are our minds?

 A few modern answers to the question, "How are you?"

 are "Busy!"  "So busy!" or  "Crazy busy!"

 We wear these verbal labels like a badge of honor as if being busy all the time is somehow meritorious; deserving praise, honor or reward. This is crazy talk, but so is much of the modern form of existence.

 When Jesus said that He had come "that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10), He didn't mean that we were meant to be so busy with things that we couldn't spare five minutes to listen to Him speak to us by His Holy Spirit.

He didn't mean that our minds couldn't learn to be still for a few minutes each day, but were constantly needing to whirr with external information and thoughts about what we had just done, were doing or going to do.

When I began to attempt to spend five minutes with God in silence each day my mind would ramp up with thoughts of mundane things like hanging out the washing that couldn't possibly wait for a few more minutes, and then after I went to do that something equaling pressing would scream for attention, and I would not return to my time with God. 

You have to ask yourself, "Who is in charge?"

My body, my mind, or my spirit?

(Hint: Your spirit should be in charge of your mind, and then your mind should be in charge of your body!)

Our spirit should allow God's Spirit to be ultimately in charge, and how great it would be to practice this vital discipline by giving God's Holy Spirit the time (just five minutes) and opportunity to speak to us every single day.

Just saying....