Fast Paced World

So ive been doing a lot of thinking recently about the state of the world and how we interact with it. Without really realizing it we demand things to happen for us on absurdly short time lines. We live in the world of eight minute abs, of high speed internet where all the information in the world is readily available to the fingertips that know how and where to look. Then I was reading about some of Jesus's teachings and the way he taught and i realized that most of us would get incredibly annoyed with Jesus as a person. If Jesus walked up to us and didnt reveal who he was just started having a conversation where he speaks cryptically and never really gives a straightforward answer most people, the most devout christians included would get peeved very quickly. I blame this on the world we live in where everything is instantaneous and we demand that entertainment be afforded us twenty four seven. But we as a people are also to blame. We have stopped thinking and have become blinded by the conveniances that make our life so easy to live. So I would like to issue everyone a challenge as well. I challenge you to slow down this week, to spend a dinner with your family and just enjoy it rather than rush through it to make the tv show or the to play the video game. Go outside and look at the sky, take in the trees, feel the warmth of the sun splash down in rays upon your skin. Just take a moment to breath in this world that God made for us. Dont be in such a rush to get to the next thing because then you miss the beauty that is in that moment. I think that if we all tried to slow down just a little bit we would make big progress in our quest to be more like Christ, and after all that is the whole point of being who we are.