If you make space for God, He will fill it.

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” —Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)

How to make space:
Accept that you cannot do it all (have to admit you are weary)
Adopt the Lifestyle of Jesus (take my yoke)
Acknowledge your worth is not dependent on your success (my burden is light)

1. You can’t do it all

“Hurry is the greatest enemy to Spiritual Life in our day” —Dallas Willard

“If the Devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” —Corrie Ten Boom

“Warp speed, can warp the soul.” —Leonard Sweet

10 Signs you are suffering from “Hurried Sickness”
(Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, John Mark Comer)

1. Irritability - easily annoyed, especially toward loved ones
2. Sensitivity - easily upset or offended by comments or actions of others
3. Restlessness - when you try to rest, you aren’t able to rest. The brain can’t turn off
4. Workaholism - emotional wellbeing and worth is tied to your career
5. Emotional Numbness - you can’t feel emotions you used to or know others are able to
6. Out of order priorities - when your life is reactive, can’t catch up, haven’t made it to the things you want to do or know you should do
7. Physically Unhealthy - No space for a regular workout or ability to eat healthy. Regularly binge on caffeine, sugar, carbs, and/or alcohol
8. Escapism - when we are too tired to care for our souls we go to our addiction of choice. Eating, drinking, porn, entertainment, etc.
9. Slippage of spiritual disciplines - the things that feed the soul are the first things to go. The things that are necessary for rest actually take energy and self-discipline. Instead of a life with God, we accept a life of Netflix and cheap red wine
10. Isolation - so stressed and distracted it’s hard to spend time with God or other people

“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” —Matthew 5:37 (NKJV)

2. Adopt the Lifestyle of Jesus

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” —Mark 1:35, NIV

Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.” —Daniel 6:10

3. Acknowledge your worth is not dependent on your success (my burden is light)

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. —Exodus 20:8 (NIV)

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. —Mark 2:27 (NIV)