Sensitivity in Busyness
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In the midst of this crazy season, it is important to remain sensitive to the Spirit of God. It can be so easy to miss out on the uniqueness of this Advent season because we get busy serving, celebrating, shopping. We are all guilty of it. But I can promise you, if you commit yourself to practicing sensitivity this Advent season, you will be so blessed for it.
Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 5:15-17, and today's worship is Whisper by Jason Upton.
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| 0:00.0 | In the midst of this crazy season, it's important to remain sensitive to the Spirit of God. |
| 0:11.0 | It can be so easy to miss out on the uniqueness of this Advent season because we get busy serving, celebrating, and shopping. |
| 0:19.0 | I can promise you if you will commit yourself to practicing |
| 0:22.8 | sensitivity this Advent season, you will be so blessed for it. Welcome to the First 15 podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | In Ephesians 5, 15 through 17, Paul writes, look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use |
| 0:41.3 | of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what |
| 0:47.2 | the will of the Lord is. Do you ever feel like your days are evil? Do you ever feel like the |
| 0:53.9 | busyness of your life rules you? |
| 0:56.4 | Society today loves busyness. |
| 0:58.9 | We love to fill our plates to the brim and find purpose in what we're doing rather than |
| 1:03.8 | why we're doing it. |
| 1:05.4 | We speak ill of our own lives, as if we have no choice in the way we spend our time. We talk about how church, |
| 1:12.7 | work, family, and friends all pull us as if the word no didn't exist. And the season of |
| 1:19.5 | Christmas can be even worse. With finishing work up to be able to take time off, and the stress |
| 1:25.7 | of families, parties, expectations, Christmas can be |
| 1:30.1 | one of the busiest times of year. Maybe God would have you set better boundaries this season, |
| 1:36.2 | or maybe he would have you do everything you're doing. Only you and the Holy Spirit can know. But regardless |
| 1:42.5 | of how busy you are, the key to walking |
| 1:45.5 | and the joy and peace of God is sensitivity. Even in the most rushed times of life, God is there, |
| 1:53.5 | beckoning you to let him in to all you're doing and feeling that you might do life with him. |
| 1:59.7 | Even in difficult relationships and too much work, |
| 2:03.3 | God has wisdom and truth for you that you might have a better perspective on life. Through the |
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