Don't Be Bogged Down

Life is so busy!  We all have many things to do, things to see, places to go, people to meet… The list never ends! There never seems to be enough hours in the day.  Ever feel that way?

Sometimes it isn’t just the clock that overwhelms us. We can get discouraged, frustrated, tired, and feel like nothing is going right in our life, our job, or our relationships.

I know that is exactly what the enemy wants you to think and to feel. He wants to bog you down, wear you down, overwhelm you, and plant seeds of hopelessness and depression. He will get you so busy that you won’t have time or energy for God, your family, or yourself. You will quit enjoying life and enter the mode of just barely surviving life.

As ships journey from sea to sea barnacles attach themselves to the ships and can slow the ships down thirty to fifty percent. Crews have to scrape the barnacles off or they will overtake the bottom of the ship.  This left undone will put the ship out of commission quickly.

The stresses of life will bog you down if you don’t spend time scraping them off in prayer. A little time each day in prayer keeps the barnacles off.

“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."  ~Psalm 46:10

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”  ~Hebrews 12:1