Nobody has any time any more. We rush from here to there. We have soccer and choir and baseball and on and on it goes. We are in such a hurry, we have come up with ways to speed up everyday tasks. We can cook dinners in minutes with microwaves, we can have a hot meal served to us in minutes at a myriad of fast food restaurants. We have e-mail, texts, and twitter to communicate with anyone the world over in seconds. Even our entertainment is geared to a ten second attention span.
In this hustle and bustle it is often our relationship with God that suffers. One or two hours a week has become too much to invest solely in the worship of God, so we often pass it up in favor of our favorite sport, or hobby, or sleep. "God will understand," we argue, "He knows we don't have any other time."
The worship of God shouldn't be an option to pencil in or erase on a whim. It should be the one event we schedule everything else around. When we come to this realization we will find that God has a solution for the dizzying pace at which we live. God tells us to, "be still and know that He is God." That phrase in Hebrew means to stop what you are doing and take a deep breath and think on God. You will find in the scramble to keep up with your hectic schedule these small, still breaks will bring a calm to the storm.
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