Simplify Your Life

If there was ever a time the people might be ready to hear the message to “Simplify their lives,” Christmas might just be that time.  Before I was married, today would have been a great day to start Christmas shopping.  Not that I would have run out to the mall (I am nuts, but not crazy), but I would generally wait until the last minute, making the process of shopping either overly difficult to accomplish, or as sometimes happend, very simple (once I got everything at one store).

When all the parties are finally over and the new year has begun and we get back to our normal lives, will we find that we finally have time for all those things we have been pushing off until after the holidays, or will we find that we are just as busy.  Will we be just as overloaded in mid-January as we are in mid-December?  Our American culture tells us that in order to appear successful we need to work to the point of exhaustion and make sure to tell eveyone about it.  Don’t believe me?  Ask anyone what they have been up to and you are likely to get a litany of all the things that they have filled their lives with and complaining about being tired.  We almost seem to believe that being tired is a sign of our own value.

We have a deep need to rest in God (see Psalm 46:10).  In January, for ICTHUS, we will be running three week series on how to “Simplify Your Life.”  Make this year’s resolution to simplify your life in worship of God, and join us Wednesday nights at 7:30 p.m. to learn about how to do so.

~ by dcedave on December 23, 2008.