Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly. —Matthew 11:28-30

Last Week: Hurry is the great

of spiritual life.

Hurry is a state of

effort one falls into in response to inadequacy, fear, and guilt.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil. —Psychiatrist Carl Jung

Introduction

Average iPhone users are on their device

a day; for millennials it’s

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.

In 2000 BC, people complained about what this new tech was doing to society: the

.

The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours! … To cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions! —Plautus, Roman Playwright

In 1370 in Cologne, Germany, the first public

was erected.

Until 1879, the average person slept

hours a night.

Today in America, the average person sleeps less than

hours a night.

Why Is It Important?

In 2000, our attention span was 12 seconds. Today it is

.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi

Psychologists are now talking about an epidemic of the modern world called “

.”

is a behavior pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness.

Cardiologist Meyer Friedman coined the phrase after noticing that most of his

cardiovascular patients displayed a harrying “sense of time urgency.”

A continuous struggle and unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more events in less and less time. —Meyer Friedman in the 1950’s

Do you:

1. Move from one check-out line to another because it looks faster?
2. Count the cars in front of you and get into the lane that has the least or is going the fastest?
3. Get up tired and live off of caffeine, sugar, processed carbs, and alcohol?

What you give your

to is the person you become.

How Do We Do It?

The solution is not more

.

If you want the

of Christ, live the

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of Christ.

The solution is to slow down and simplify our lives around what

.

“No” is a complete sentence. —Anne Lamott

Jesus calls us to live into both our potential and our

.

How we spend our time is how we spend our

.

The average American spends

hours a year on social media, 2,737.5 hours on

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, and the average guy spends

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hours playing video games by age 21. (Ephesians 5:14-17)

If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus. —John Mark Comer

We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him. —Henri Nouwen

Well, when you spend one hour a day adoring your Lord and never do anything which you know is wrong … you will be fine! —Mother Teresa to Henri Nouwen

Action Steps

Create an

for attention and connection to God.

Take a

sabbath: 24 hours straight

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. Just one day.