easy come, easy go

Slow living is a reaction against the stressful tempo
of modern life.
People try to avoid supermarkets and everything that
has been artificially speeded up in order to take time
to grow their own carrots.
As spiritual people we also believe in slow living.
We are learning to “rest in the Lord” and not to
“strive in the flesh”.
It is a strange thing if someone burns out in doing the
work of God. I t looks like they actually tried to do
the work of GOD and collapsed.
There’s always a danger that the supermarket mentality
deceives us also to look for fast, impressive and
just easy results in the church. Easy come, easy go.
God took his time in creating the world.
He took time to appreciate his own creation.
Jesus took his time. In responding to the Pharisees
who warned him about Herod’s plans to kill him he said,
“Go, tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform
cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be
perfected.” Luke 13:32
He was not in Herod’s program. He was in the will of God.
The kingdom of darkness, the cosmos, wants our blind
submission. We seek first the Kingdom of God.
With fast living people loose their sense of holiness.
Holiness cannot not be called fast.
The same happens with genuine friendships.
They take time. You cannot be faithful fast.
It takes time to love. Wisdom cannot be attained fast.
Satan knows that his time is short. Revelation12:12
He wants to paint a picture of us missing something
if we start to think. His fast track is considered to be the
only reasonable life-style. We say, ”no”.
We are busy in resting in Him.