If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that distractions can be a tactic used by adversaries to prevent you from achieving your goals.
Corrie Ten Boom's quote emphasizes the idea that if external challenges or adversaries cannot corrupt your character or values (make you bad), they will instead try to overwhelm you with distractions and busywork (make you busy). The underlying message is a reminder to stay focused on your true purpose and avoid being sidetracked by irrelevant tasks or pressures originating from negativity.
In practice
In a team meeting to motivate members against distractions.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
You must learn to discipline your disappointment.
Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
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