HASTE

Haste is easy to avoid. It just requires patience. I personally don't have any so that does complicate the problem in my case.

And it always seem that when I'm the most pressed for time that other issues come to bear upon my life. So that always makes things worse from my view.

But I do try as much as possible to accept there is time and place for everything, just hard to let my heart accept that at times. It is an endless challenge at times.

The one thing that ought to influence one's thinking is naturally eternity. That doesn't mean it does.

I'm not sure why some people who claim to be Christians become so obsessed with this life. We do have to live it, but at what expense?

Really, isn't that a fair question? Do we obsess with the here and now? Sure seems like it at times.

I have to admit that I get caught up in the same priorities on occasion. It doesn't mean that I claim that is God's doing.

Just one of those things that happens to me at times. And I do my best to accept that is just a fact that I know is part of life.

Oh we can excuse such impatience. That isn't very unusual. Just means we don't always admit.

It is difficult at times to balance what is critical to the now verses what is important to forever. Desires and needs to color our thoughts and sense of priority.

And when that happens if we don't listen to the Lord's spirit we will keep translating what is important by only our needs. This can be so pathetic when it comes to causing harm to others.

I can believe the times I've seen this is churches. Oh they never admit their behavior is selfish, just prefer to claim it is not their fault.

And the more skilled they are at lying the more they will find some way to justify greed and selfishness as being spiritual. Such is the nature of life.

We always find ourselves in the joy of not seeing things the way God sees them. And always finding a good way to say it is okay.

But when we stop only listening to our clock and listen to eternity's ticks then perhaps we see time by God's standards.