Runaway Peace Train (Part 2) by Don Campbell

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only”

-Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

Esther 1:13
Wise men understand the times

1 Chronicles 12:32
Issachar Understood the Times and Knew what Israel should do

One Billion Google searches each day.
More texts per day than people on the earth.
500 people join World of Warcraft every 5 seconds
5000 YouTube videos are viewed every 5 seconds
500,000 face book posts made every 5 seconds

Thirty years ago the national weekly average of television viewing was about 12 hours a week per person. Today the average is 22 hours per week per person. Add to that 14 hours per week per person of non-work-related internet surfing and you’ve just added 24 hours per week per person that wasn’t there “back in the good old days”. That’s a WHOLE DAY!

These “times” tend to be in direct conflict with the Spiritual Disciplines of :

Simplicity
Purging everything from my life that is not worthy
Luke 9:58 – “Foxes have holes…”

Solitude
The bliss of silence and separation
Matt. 14:13 – “Jesus withdrew to a lonely place apart…”

Meditation
Building the inner sanctuary of the heart
Matt. 4:1-12 – Jesus went to the desert to pray and fast

Psalm 119:37
FOCUS
“Turn my eyes from worthless things”

Trivial pursuit is not just a game…..it is a lifestyle – Rick Warren

Like Hamsters on the wheel…..busy as can be…..but getting no where.

Richard Foster said, “Hurry is not of the devil, it IS the devil”




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