Always in a Hurry

~ my personal synopsis of a recent sermon~





Are you stricken with the sickness that seems to be plaguing so many people today?  With this sickness, there is no fever involved and no visits to the doctor. Its symptoms affect everyone around you, but most importantly, they affect you. The worst part about this sickness is you miss out on so many of life's wonderful moments. 

It's called hurry sickness.  Does it sound familiar? It's otherwise known as a sense of time urgency.

Ask yourself, "Is time a major factor in my life?"

Do you find yourself running around trying to get one thing done just so you can complete another?

Does your job place so many demands on you that you can hardly focus on what your real role is supposed to be? Maybe your real role at work involves people, yet you have so much paperwork to be completed you could easily forget about the people you are there to serve. Maybe you even start to see them as an interruption.

Do you take your work home with you and when your own child asks you a question while in the midst of getting your work done, you only give them a tiny portion of your attention, nodding, and not really knowing what they are saying? After all, you have deadlines to meet. You are hurried. Maybe you even start to see them as an interruption.

Hurry hates interruption.

        You can't love.
               You can't listen to a child.
                      Basically, you can't multi-task attention.

Hurry is an enemy.

Take note, being hurried is not being busy.  Being busy can be a good thing.  There is nothing really good about being hurried. Remember, being hurried is about time urgency.  You don't have time for one thing because you are so hurried to do another.

If you are a hurried person, you don't have time for interruptions in your life.  You don't have time to jump some one's car off. You don't have time to talk to someone in need.  You don't have time to help the person who dropped something.  You can't slow down long enough to talk to your kids.

So, what is your IQ anyway?  No, I am not talking about your intelligence quotient.  I'm talking about your Interruptibility Quotient.  How many times do you allow for interruptions in your life?  Do you slow down long enough to let God interrupt your life?  What about when you didn't stop to help a person or talk to someone in need? Was that a prompt from God?  It does make you think.

The next time you feel hurried or overcome with time urgency, take a moment to ponder if this interruption is really a disguise from God that he is trying to work in your life.  I plan on trying it myself. 

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