Slow down

Life in the 21st Century is lived at such a speed as to be almost unbelievable.

One of the regular complaint I hear people make is that their computer is 'too slow'. I never heard anyone in the past who registered a complaint that their pen was too slow, or their encyclopedia was too slow!

We live life at top speed, committing to many things, ensuring our attendance at all sorts of gatherings and meeting both social and business. We save programmes to watch 'when we have time'. We don't write letters anymore we text and even then abbreviate words because we don't have the space or time (and that's only if we are not too busy to remember!)

Slow down...

Breathe...

Think...

Pray...

Yes we have many calls on our time, serious calls. We also have a tendency to overcommit ourselves to things that don't need doing or are, in fact, someone else's responsibility or on their agenda not ours.

Jesus obviously lived in a world that was socially and technologically very different to ours but even He had to find times and places to just 'be still' (interestingly one was where panic and storm were going on around Him).

Today I will stop occasionally. Not from tiredness or because I am a laggard, not because I don't know what to do next or am lazy but because if it was important for Jesus it has to be important for me.

He was always about His Fathers business even when he appeared to be doing nothing...