Recalibrate: What’s The Rush?
Peter Gowesky
YOUR LIFE IS A BYPRODUCT OF YOUR LIFESTYLE.
GOD DID NOT RUSH JESUS’ DEVELOPMENT, AND HE WON’T RUSH YOURS EITHER.
13 Once again Jesus went out beside the lake. A large crowd came to him, and he began to teach them. 14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. 15 While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” —Mark 2:13-17
PT. 1 RUSHING MAY GET YOU TO THE
- WHERE DO I SEE GOD IN THIS SEASON?
- WHAT IS GOD TEACHING ME THROUGH IT?
34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? 37 Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? —Mark 8:34-37
PT. 2 BUSY DOES NOT MEAN
15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. —Ephesians 5:15-17
Pt. 3 HURRY IS A HEART DISORDER.
YOU DON’T NEED MORE MOMENTS. YOU NEED MORE OF WHAT MATTERS MOST.
- Chose What’s Important
- Be Fully Present
- Look for God & Listen to His Voice