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How To Handle Hurry Sickness (Pt.
2)
Six Habits to Handle Hurry
Mark 6:30-31 \\ \\
It’s Thanksgiving Day & the aroma of roast turkey fills Charlie Brown’s house.
Snoopy, outside, lying on top of his doghouse, smells that aroma, & he is thinking, “It’s Thanksgiving Day.
Everybody eats turkey on Thanksgiving Day.”
So he lies there, watching the back door, eagerly awaiting his Thanksgiving dinner.
Finally, the door opens & here comes Charlie Brown with a bowl of dog food, & he puts it on the ground.
Snoopy gets off his house & stares at the dog food with a forlorn look on his face.
And he thinks, “Just because I’m a dog, I have to eat dog food on Thanksgiving Day.” Then the next square shows him looking at the dog food more intently, & he is thinking, “It could be worse.
I could be the turkey.”
Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful and to rest and be with our families.
Resting is something that we are not to good at sometimes.
Mark 6:30-31 The apostles returned to Jesus from their ministry tour and told him all they had done and what they had taught.
Then Jesus said, “Let’s get away from the crowds for a while and rest.”
(NLT)
1.
Practice slowing down.
If you’ve got hurry sickness, you’re absolutely going to hate this one.
You’re going to scoff and balk and chaff at it when I tell you what to do.
That’s a sure sign of hurried pace of life.
This first one is a tough one for me sometimes.
But I think it can be a help.
Did you know our city government practices slowing things down?
Listen what they did to Noah.
The Lord spoke to Noah and said, “Noah in six months I am going to make it rain until the whole world is covered with water and all the evil things are destroyed.
But, I want to save a few good people and two of every living thing on the planet.
So I want you to build an ark.”
Well, six months passed, the sky began to cloud up, and the rain began to fall in torrents.
The Lord looked down and saw Nah sitting in his yard, weeping, and there was no ark.
“Noah!” shouted the Lord, “Where is My ark?” “Lord please forgive me!” begged Noah.
“I did my best but there were some problems --- big problems.
First, I had to get a building permit for the ark’s construction, but Your plans did not meet their code.
So, I had to hire an engineer to redo the plans, only to get into a long argument with him about whether to include a fire-sprinkler system.”
“My neighbors objected, claiming that I was violating zoning ordinances by building the ark in my front yard, because it was killing the dandelions --- so I had to get a variance from the city planning board.
Then I had a big problem getting enough wood for the ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to save the spotted owl.
I tried to convince the environmentalists and the Fish and Game Commission that I needed the wood to save the owls, but they wouldn’t let me catch them, so NO OWLS.”
“Next I started gathering up the animals but got sued by an animal rights group that objected to my taking along only two of each kind; they wanted me to save them all.
Then the Corps of Engineers wanted a map of the proposed flood plain.
So I sent them a globe!
The IRS has seized all my assets claiming that I am trying to leave the country, and I just got notice from the state that I owe some kind of usage tax.
Really, I don’t think I can finish the ark in less than five years.”
With that, the sky cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow arched across the sky.
Noah looked up and smiled.
“You mean You are not going to destroy the world?” he asked hopefully.
“No,” said the Lord, “I am too late, the government already has.”
Practice slowing down while you’re driving.
Did you know that the Bible says we are to “obey the laws of the land?”
Don’t go over the speed limit.
Do the opposite.
Practice going one to three miles per hour under the speed limit.
When you approach that stop light, deliberately don’t get in the lane with the smallest number of cars.
Not only will you overcome hurry sickness, but the fringe benefit is a clean driving record and lower insurance premiums.
Use the same concept at the grocery store.
Choose a longer line, take a deep breath and notice the people around you.
Try to strike up a conversation.
Build a relationship.
If someone has just a few items, invite them to go in front of you.
Apply this discipline to any area where you’re tempted to speed up.
It’ll drive you nuts at first but it’ll also help you to “aggressively eliminate hurry from your life.”
Choose to slow down.
\\ 2. Learn to say “No.”
We love volunteers around here because there are so few of them.
I encourage service within the context of the church because neither the church nor the member can grow without it.
Some of us, however, have a problem with over commitment.
We have good intentions, but fail to think through what we’ve signed on for.
You’ve got to count the cost of your commitments.
Ask yourself, “Is this responsibility or ministry or overtime going to keep me away from home yet another night of the week?”
I’ve made a personal commitment to never be gone from home more than four nights a week.
I will cut some of my evening activities to make it happen.
If you’re going to do it you’ve got to learn to say, “No.”
In his medical practice, Dr.
Richard Swenson sees a steady stream of hurting people coming into his office.
He claims that a majority of them suffer from a chronic ailment which has reached epidemic levels in our country.
Do you know what it is?
SARS, maybe?
Or AIDS?
The disease Dr. Swenson is concerned about is what he calls a lack of “MARGIN.”
“Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves & our limits.
It’s something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations.
“As a society, we’ve forgotten what margin is.
In the push for progress, margin has been devoured.
We’re overloaded.”
Swenson describes the results of this kind of living this way: “… we feel distressed in ill-defined ways.
We are besieged by anxiety, stress and fatigue.
Our relationships suffer.
We have unexplained aches and pains.
The flood of daily events seems beyond our control.”
Does that sound familiar to anybody?
How different does that sound from the words of Jesus: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
KJV John 10:10
Ask yourself if those early morning activities are going to cut into you quiet time with God.
If you add one more thing to your calendar is it going to contribute to your rudeness and irritability?
Learn to say “no” to many good things, so that you can focus on the best things.
You must aggressively eliminate hurry from your life.
\\ 3. Consistently keep a Sabbath.
There’s a reason why God commanded: “Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Six days a week are set apart for your daily duties and regular work, but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to the LORD your God.” Exodus 20:8-10 (NLT)
He knew that we need it.
We need time for physical renewal.
We need time to reflect on and appreciate life.
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