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
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.
Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! _x000D_ But it means that they have the ability to deal with it
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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