This is an intervention. For your own good, check into the clinic. You're addicted to speed.
Got your attention? I'm not talking about doing drugs. I am talking about how most of us are hooked on the ever-accelerating pace of life. Monday morning and the questions will hit us again: Do you have a minute? Grab a quick bite? Check your mail while you're driving? This speed is killing us.
Today’s an anniversary in our ever-accelerating rush. Gideon Sundback, an inventor in Hoboken, New Jersey, patented the zipper on April 29, 1913. Before the zipper, you buttoned or tied your clothes. That was slow. Then came the "separable fastener" as Sundback called it. That was faster. Now we've got Velcro, faster still.
I'm not suggesting you check into an Amish community, but for your own good, get your addiction to speed under control. Even on workdays, check yourself into the clinic of regular quiet time with God, Bible and prayer. Check in every day, even several times a day. "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength" (Isaiah 30:15). Then the verse adds this about Israel in Isaiah's day: "But you would have none of it."
Will you? Speed kills. Rest with God recreates.
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