Battling Busyness: Choosing What is Better

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Battling Busyness Choosing What is Better
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Life's Seasons...
...and Circumstances
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Lifes daily challenge

• 23 Then he said to them all "Whoever wants to be
  my disciple must deny themselves and take up
  their cross daily and follow me.
• 24 For whoever wants to save their life will lose
  it, but whoever loses their life for me will save
  it.
• 25 What good is it for you to gain the whole
  world, and yet lose or forfeit your very self?
• Luke 923-25 TNIV

• Declaration
• Explanation
• Admonition

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An Important Reminder

• 15Be very careful, then, how you livenot as
  unwise but as wise, 16making the most of every
  opportunity, because the days are evil.
  17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand
  what the Lord's will is.
• Ephesians 515-17 TNIV

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Choosing what is better

• Luke 1041-42
• "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are
  worried and upset about many things, 42 but few
  things are neededor indeed only one. Mary has
  chosen what is better, and it will not be taken
  away from her."
• Philippians 19-11
• 9And this is my prayer that your love may
  abound more and more in knowledge and depth of
  insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern
  what is best and may be pure and blameless for
  the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of
  righteousness that comes through Jesus Christto
  the glory and praise of God.

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suggestions taken from Romans 121-2
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    1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and
sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing
to Godthis is true worship. 2 Do not conform to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God's will ishis good,
pleasing and perfect will.

• Live like you mean it!
• Be a sacrificial servant!
• Leave the world behind!
• Be a subversive saint!
• Let the will of God reign in your heart!
• Be a skilled student of God!