“The Need To Slow Down”
By Zach Wood
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you
who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
It’s no surprise we have so many people in the world today
who are tired. They are tired from many
things: work, family, friends, extracurricular activities, church functions,
etc. The list could go on and on with
how incredibly busy some people have become.
This past Sunday we had a sermon talking about how we need to slow our
lives down more and take the time to relax.
So many of us these days are in a rush mode and we don’t
stop. It’s not that we don’t want to,
but we have such busy lives that we feel we just need to keep going and going,
just like the energizer bunny. But you
know what? Even the battery in that
bunny will soon lose its power and need a new one. We all need replenishing and a constant, busy
lifestyle is not helping.
It’s hard to know the balance of when to be busy and when to
rest. Often, we feel guilty if we do
rest. We don’t feel productive just sitting
around, but it’s something our bodies desperately need to become
recharged. We’re in a society that
focuses so much on consuming more caffeine, pills and other things to keep our
bodies going. What our bodies need is
real rest. We were not meant to be on
the go every waking moment, but often we are.
I would like to encourage all of us, in this fast-paced
world, to take Jesus’ words to heart. He
is serious about us coming to Him, laying our lives before Him and getting the
rest we need from the weary lives we often have. Sometimes the most productive thing we can
do is to take a time of rest, whenever that is.
Daily would be good. It’s not
healthy to run, run, run all day long and get very little sleep. We just burn ourselves out. Where’s the balance? Hard question.
We need to take notice each day of Jesus’ invitation to get
the rest our bodies need so that we can be replenished. He invites us to come to Him and rest.
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