Impatience

A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, follow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul.

A. W. Tozer

Are we as described, so pressed for time that we rush through our quiet time, rush through our prayers, rush through the day? Are we impatient attending prayer meetings and sermons? I'll admit, that I do skim through the Bible sometimes when I know that there're other matters awaiting me. But it's my prayer for myself and all of us that we will have a genuine desire to spend time with Him each day. Let us not rush through our lives, but learn to be still, listen to Him, and enjoy a deep fellowship with Him each day.