Overcoming being Overworked | Rapp Report Daily 0127 | Striving for Eternity

Spiritual Burnout and the Tyranny of the Urgent

Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.

Spiritual depression is often thought of as really burnout that occurs with many, even pastors, who struggle with the fact that they just get burnt out from doing too much. But there's many in the church that can have this.

And it doesn't have to be that you're doing too much in the church. There could be times when you are just being stretched in way too many directions. Concerns and issues at work that are taking up much of your time.

Issues within the family that may be difficult to deal with and drain you. And when you have things at work, at home, and then at church that drain, it can have an effect that brings you in to a burnout situation or a spiritual depression.

A point where you don't even want to read God's word. And the thing to do is to, first, start to make a plan. You have to budget the time so that you are rightly spending time where you should. And this is hard because everything can feel like it's urgent and must get your attention.

This is known as the tyranny of the urgent. But the only way around that is to start to focus on the important things. Deal with them. Don't keep putting them off. Deal with them. And then move on. The tyranny of the urgent is when everything seems so urgent, you do nothing.

And you don't get anything done. And what we must do is we must move forward. We must take some of the things that have to be dealt with, the most prioritized ones, deal with them, and then you can move on to the next steps.

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