When Busy Isn't Enough

Dear friend.

Have you ever reached the end of a long day feeling - well, not quite anything? Not satisfied. Not tired in a good way. Just hollow. As if you’d been running hard all day and hadn’t quite arrived anywhere.

Most of us know that feeling. We say “busy” almost before we’ve had time to think. And it’s true - we have been busy. Driving, replying, sorting, managing. Always somewhere else to be, always something next on the list.

But busy isn’t the same as purposeful.

This week in our “Who Are You Living For?” series, we’ve been sitting with Paul’s challenge in Romans 6 - the call to offer every part of ourselves to God. Not just our Sunday intentions. Every part. And today’s question is perhaps the most searching one yet.

There’s a small, almost-overlooked verse in Nahum chapter two that describes chariots racing wildly through the streets of Nineveh. Speed. Flash. Urgency. Movement in every direction. And then the quiet, devastating observation beneath it all: they’re going nowhere. Frantic, but not forwards.

I look at that picture and I sometimes see my own week in it.

Paul offers a different way. Not stillness - he’s pressing on, racing even - but with singular focus. “This one thing,” he says. Not a hundred things done quickly. One thing, done with his whole self.

Motion is not the same as direction.

Today’s one small step is a question worth writing on your hand or setting as a phone reminder: Where is God asking me to actually show up today?

I’ve explored this fully in today’s five-minute devotional. It’s a short watch, but I think you’ll find it worth every minute:

See you tomorrow.

Rob

Read this week’s devotionals here - https://open.substack.com/pub/battledrilldevotional/p/who-are-you-living-for-romans-6-daily?r=643q6o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true