Lent: JUST FOR YOU!
The faster I go the less I get done. Have you noticed that in your life? I was in such a hurry the other day. I woke up at 5:00 a.m., prepared some breakfast, got out to the car, got halfway to the church, forgot the breakfast, turned around, got back home, got the breakfast, got into the car, spilled the breakfast all over my tie, went back into the house, changed ties, got back into the car, got to the church, dropped Iphone on floor (ouch!), said something not repeatable, went to make coffee, couldn’t find coffee, finally found coffee, spilled grinds all over floor, cleaned it up, made the coffee, went to office, turned on computer, went back to get coffee, found hot coffee all over countertop and floor, realized I turned on coffee maker without putting the pot in it! WOW!
Going faster doesn’t mean you are going to get more done. The word “multitask” is a word that Satan invented for all human beings. We are convinced we can all do multiple things at once, when in fact we can only concentrate on one or two at best. When we spread our attention over a gambit of tasks and then try to accomplish them like an Olympic runner, NOTHING GETS DONE, or at least not well.
Lent provides us some time to slow down. In our vain attempt to multitask all we have to do, we leave out the most important thing of all…Christ. Lent provides us time to focus on what matters most…Christ, and knowing Christ changes our behavior. You should be a little sweeter, a little nicer, a little more tolerant, a little more patient, a little more filled with joy, a little more grateful, thankful, loving, giving and all the rest. When we slow down we focus on the ONE thing that is most important…our relationship with Christ and when we do that we change.
So today, try not to shove too much into it. You are not trying to get your picture on the front of a Wheaties Box. Instead, God created you to focus on living your life. He created you to enjoy your life and by enjoying your life to the fullest you must take time to know Him!
I hope today is filled with the things that you have been whizzing by all these many years. I hope you have less and less days of anxiety and stress and feeling like you don’t have enough time to get things done. I hope that you will begin to tie up those loose ends that always nag at us. Because it is almost Easter, a time to COME ALIVE, a time to really start living.
Make it a point to slow down enough and join us Sunday and all the services we have planned that will bring you face to face with God. Haven’t we left Him out of our lives long enough?
Enjoy today…God created it just for you!
Love you all,
Rev. Jim
