“In a Hurry Just to Sit Down!”
A few weeks back, I was helping Nick Chirco, a friend of mine, to remodel his kitchen. I rode with him to the hardware store to get some items needed when a car went speeding past us like we were standing still! It wasn’t more than a couple minutes later, and we were sitting behind the speeding car at a red light.
I started laughing and making the comment I am sure many of the readers have made about someone that had done the same thing to them. The light turned green and they took off like it was from a starting line of a drag race. I asked Nick, “I wonder where the fire is?” Nick chuckled and said, “They’re just in a hurry to go sit down.”
I thought about his comment and it is so true of us all in some way or another. We seem to be in a hurry to get somewhere just to sit down when we get there. What I mean is, we are in a hurry but for no good reason. Kind of like being in a hurry to go nowhere. I know that doesn’t make any sense but my stepdad use to say that about people that were in a hurry.
I used to be in a hurry just be in a hurry! I mean all the time, no matter where I was going, I was in a hurry to get there. I remember giving my boys an empty bottle to pee in when were traveling to see family. Why? Because I was in a hurry to go sit down. LOL
I have slowed down a whole lot since becoming more intimate with the Lord. It wasn’t easy at first but I have learned to slow down quite a bit. I figured if Jesus gave us the example on how to NOT be in a hurry, that we should try to emulate HIM. Amen?
God wants us to pay attention to HIM and to His creation in our life every day. When we go racing through life doing everything as fast as we can, we miss some pretty awesome things along the way! Amen?
You know, if Jesus did not get in a hurry for HIS dying friend Lazarus, I am pretty sure he is telling us we need to slow down too. Amen?
John 11:1-7 (NLT) (1) A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha. (2) This is the Mary who later poured the expensive perfume on the Lord’s feet and wiped them with her hair. Her brother, Lazarus, was sick. (3) So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, “Lord, your dear friend is very sick.” (4) But when Jesus heard about it he said, “Lazarus’s sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this.” (5) So although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, (6) he stayed where he was for the next two days. (7) Finally, he said to his disciples, “Let’s go back to Judea.”
Today we are heading out on another adventure in the motorhome. The old me would have convinced myself that we needed to leave before daylight and get to our destination with as few stops as possible. God has helped me “stop and smell the roses” in life and I pray you let him help you too.
I pray for all of us to slow down today and enjoy HIM and HIS CREATION. Amen? Praise the King!
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