Stop Rushing

In so many of the Biblical accounts we read, there never seems to be anyone in a rush. Is it possible that our rushing is a result of wanting to please people? We don’t want to let them down, or we want to appear to be ‘successful’? Jesus took time to stop and talk to the woman at the well, and a city became transformed. Paul and Silas took time to sit and speak with some women and from that conversation, Lydia was saved, along with all her household. In prison, even when they were in pain, Paul and Silas took time to stop and worship God. The prison was shaken, God showed up, and the jailer and his whole family got saved.
I wonder how much more we would see God ‘show up’ if started laying aside our schedules our agendas and all our rushing; in our day to day lives; in our church services; in all our ‘doing’, and just stopped and allowed ourselves to just ‘be’ in that moment. Its in our ‘being’ available for God that lives are changed. Otherwise we run the risk of rushing through life and missing all the God moments. Imagine standing before God when we get to heaven and have Him say, “Look at what you missed…” or… “Look at all the lives you touched…”. That’s the opinion that will matter most…

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