Show me the way in 2024
When the year's end feels a bit impossible.
Are you weary from long days? A pace that leaves you weary.
As we continue to face unknowns and heartaches, I am desperately made aware of my need for the Lord.
Show me the way from your Word.
Show me the way from your Word.
The solution to an over busy life is not more time. It is to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters.
How do we live deliberately, slowing down, simplifying, right in the middle of the chaos of the noisy, fast-paced, digital world we call home?
The answer is easy: but the process is difficult and daily: follow Jesus.
The answer is easy: but the process is difficult and daily: follow Jesus.
To many this answer may feel a bit mundane,
Read your Bible.
Be with Jesus.
Become like Jesus.,
Model all of your life after Jesus.
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Eugene Peterson's paraphrase of these same verses in The Message:
"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out by religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me-watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."
People all over the world-outside the church and in-are looking for an escape, a way out from under the weight of life this side of Eden.
But there is no escaping. The best the world can offer is a temporary distraction.
Jesus doesn't offer us an escape. He offers us much more, equipment.
He offers us a way to bear the weight of this world.
He offers us a way to bear the weight of this world.
At his side.
At his pace.
Unhurried, present in the moment, full of love and joy and peace.
(Parts of this is taken from, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry")
Until next time, Pam
