day no. 15,509: more or less

"It's not wrong to be tired. It's not wrong to feel overwhelmed. It's not wrong to go through seasons of complete chaos. What is wrong -- and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable -- is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need." -- Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy

These are the last words of DeYoung's book on busyness.

It is sad that so many have much more crazy than they ever wanted because they have far less Jesus than they desire. The tragedy of this as DeYoung points out is that it is not an inevitability. Jesus is available for those who want Him and there is more of Him to give than we take advantage of. At the same time, we endure and create more chaos, confusion and craziness than is necessary in our attempts to get after it without Him. We bring more crazy than is required upon our own heads.

We don't want hectic, but we have plenty of it. 

We need Jesus, but we don't have as much as we should.

These are tragedies, but they are also opportunities.

The hectic does not have to rule and Jesus still does.

So there is hope. There is time to repent, believe and have less crazy and more Jesus if we die to the pride of being busier than necessary in order to live for the hope of being holier than the world demands.