Welcome back to Continue The Conversation where we take a snippet of Sunday’s message and create a conversations out of it.
This weekend we continued our new series entitled SYNC. In this series we are talking about spiritual transformation. Yesterday, I talked about the importance of solitude and the dangers of hurry.
I had to confess that my life is often dominated by hurry in such a way that in reduces my chances for Christ to be formed in me. I suffer from a sort of “Hurry Sickness” that I first heard about from John Ortberg.
So how do you know if you suffer from “hurry sickness”?
- You might suffer from it if your a chronic multi-tasker that tries to drive, text, eat, and put on make-up at the same time.
- You might suffer from this disease if you tend to make up mock games with your kids like “who can eat breakfast the fastest”, just so you can get out the door.
- You might suffer from this disease if you can’t sit still for more than five minutes without creating a list of things you need to be doing, so you will feel productive.
Hurry is addictive. It’s so addictive that I often find myself hurrying even when I don’t need to. And the problem might not be what you think it is.
I used to think that I hurry because I have a busy job with a lot of responsibilities. I used to think I was always in a hurry because I have a busy social life and 3 little boys that are constantly on the go.
The truth is, I choose hurry. And I choose it because of what it does to my ego. Hurry makes me feel important. Hurry gets my adrenaline going. Hurry keeps me from having to slow down to see and hear the truth about my inner life.
And the sad reality is until I slow down, Christ will never be truly be formed in me. See you can’t microwave spiritual transformation.
How about you? Do you suffer from “hurry sickness”? Is hurry keeping your from “abiding” in Christ?
*A watercooler post.
