Message: “Eliminating Hurry 1: the Great Enemy Is Hurry…Really?” from Ross Stackhouse

Message at 37:25. We have “hurry sickness.” We’re running away from our sicknesses–shame, insecurity, fear–to a hurried, busy, distracted life without realizing that hurry is the sickness. It’s a least a big part of our sickness. And what makes it harder is that the technology that is now with us all the time is designed to make us addicted, distracted and hurried. It’s designed to make us sick. There is good news. Jesus is still here. Present. He will be here. No matter what it looks like. Inviting us to life, actual life, that is good for our souls.

Scripture References: Psalms 46:10

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From Series: "Eliminating Hurry: the Great Enemy of the Spiritual Life"

Dallas Willard said, “Hurry is the great enemy to spiritual life in our day.” We are more hurried, busy and distracted than we’ve ever been as human beings. We sleep less, rely on digital devices more and more, and think of “slow” as a really, really bad thing. Whether it is out of a sense of fear or insecurity or pain or guilt or a combination, normal for more and more of us is living life at a speed that doesn’t lead to life at all–at least not the abundant spiritual life for which God made us. There is good news: God’s mystery, power and love are there for us to experience all the same. The good news is that there is a richer, deeper, better faith beyond the mediocre faith we’ve been frustrated with or have avoided altogether in the midst of our rushed, distracted living. If we can learn to unhurry our lives and learn to be still with Jesus with our weariness and burdens, we will find rest for our souls. We will find that Jesus’s yoke is easy and his burden is light.