![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Internet is destroying our ability to contemplateĪ recent study found that the average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day. Now it’s flipped: the more you sit around and relax, the less status you have. Rather than becoming more efficient with time, as we measured it, we filled it with more.Ī century ago the less you worked, the more status you had. When the sun set our rhythms of work and rest, it did so under the control of God but the clock is under the control of the employer, a far more demanding master. We abandoned our natural rhythms in the name of mechanical efficiency. Starting with sundial and then the clock, man created the artificiality of time. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. And all three are incompatible with hurry.įor many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. To restate: love, joy, and peace are at the heart of all Jesus is trying to grow in the soil of your life. The more present we are to the now, the more joy we tap into. All my worst moments as a father, a husband, and a pastor, even as a human being, are when I’m in a hurryĪll the spiritual masters from inside and outside the Jesus tradition agree on this one (as do secular psychologists, mindfulness experts, etc.): if there’s a secret to happiness, it’s simple-presence to the moment. Today, you’re far more likely to run into the enemy in the form of an alert on your phone while you’re reading your Bible or a multiday Netflix binge or a full-on dopamine addiction to Instagram or a Saturday morning at the office or another soccer game on a Sunday or commitment after commitment after commitment in a life of speed.īoth sin and busyness have the exact same effect-they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.ĭistraction separates us from ourselves, each other, our destinies, and God. We think of evil as violent and hateful acts, and that’s true.īut evil can be far more cunning and subversive. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Evil in the form of distraction Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. Then: “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”Īnother long silence… Willard: “There is nothing else. There’s a long silence on the other end of the line… According to John, “With Willard there’s always a long silence on the other end of the line. So he calls up Willard and asks, “What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?” Part one: The problem Hurry: the great enemy of spiritual lifeĬomer meets with John Ortberg, a California-based pastor and writer, who shares a story about Dallas Williard, who was a philosopher and spiritual leader at USC:īut behind the scenes felt like he was getting sucked into the vortex of megachurch insanity. ![]()
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