Hit the Brakes

Rush, rush, rush. 

If you are retired, like I am, this was your and my life’s tempo yesterday.

If you’re still working, this is yours today. You need to get some errands done, go to places to purchase one thing or other, and meet people in a reunion or meeting. But the heavy, standstill traffic stalls you. Before you could blink, the day is over and you have not accomplished all you had planned on doing. 

While running around like crazy, you get stressed. The more you get stressed, the more you can’t concentrate to do your tasks right. Before everything goes haywire, please hit the brakes. 

Just stop. 

You need to be calm and quiet to get your bearings back.  

God showed us how to rest. “On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.” (Genesis 2:2-3 NLT) 

Jesus did the same. “Then Jesus said, ‘Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile; He said this because there were so many people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time to eat.” (Mark 6:30–32)

When our speed is too fast and there are too many roads to take, our body feels the pressure. Let’s hit the brakes. Let’s find a quiet place where we can soak in God’s grace and turn off the noise that garbles His voice. As we read His Word and talk to Him in prayer, He will speak to us. 

In Psalm 46:10, He nudges us, “Be still, and know that I am God!”