Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do….

He was busy, but never in a way that made him frantic, anxious, irritable, proud, envious, or distracted by lesser things….  Jesus knew the difference between urgent and important. He understood that all the good things he could do were not necessarily the things he ought to do…. 

Ultimately, Jesus was driven by the Spirit. He was driven by his God-given mission. He knew his priorities and did not let the many temptations of a busy life deter him from his task….

What are your priorities? What’s your mission?

– Kevin DeYoung in Crazy Busy