Satan's Meeting (read even if you're busy)
 
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said, “We can’t 
keep Christians from going to church.” “We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and 
knowing the truth.” “We can’t even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their 
Savior.” “Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.”
 
“So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, but steal their 
time, so they don’t have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.” “This is what I 
want you to do”, said the devil. “Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and 
maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!”
 
“How shall we do this?” his demons shouted.
 
“Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their 
minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. 
Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each 
week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending 
time with their children. As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape 
from the pressures of work!” “Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, 
small voice.”
 
“Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, VCR, 
CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant 
in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union 
with Christ.” “Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with 
the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes 
with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and  
promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.”
 
“Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that 
outward beauty is what’s important, and they’ll become dissatisfied with their wives Keep the 
wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If they don’t give 
their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere.” “That will fragment their families quickly!”
 
“Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of 
Christmas. Give them an Easter bunny so they won’t talk about his resurrection and power 
over sin and death.” “Even in their recreation, let them be excessive...have them return from 
their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God’s 
creation. Send them to amusement parks!, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies 
instead.” “Keep them busy, busy, busy!”
 
“And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, leave with troubled consciences.” “Crowd their 
lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will 
be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.”
 
“It will work!”, “It will work!”
 
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians 
everywhere to having little time for their God or their families. Having no time to tell others 
about the power of  Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has the devil been
successful at his scheme?
 
You be the judge! Does “busy” mean:
B-eing
U-nder
S-atan’s
Y-oke?