Message: “Eliminating Hurry 3: the Solution” from Ross Stackhouse

Message at 31:00. As much as our minds may be conditioned to think that the solution to our situation is more time, our souls know differently. Here’s the solution: “It’s to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters,” as John Mark Comer says in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. Sounds great! But if this solution were easy, we would have done it by now. Truth be told, slowing down and simplifying our lives is like walking through a narrow gate and walking a difficult road. Here’s the thing, though: This narrow gate and this road are the very ones that Jesus will guide us through. He can show us and lead us toward slowing down and simplifying our lives around what really matters. Our starting place? Accepting and even embracing our limitations.

Scripture References: Matthew 7:13-14

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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.