We live in an “instant” age. We want “instant” results. We desire “instant” gratification for the efforts that we exert in our daily lives.
I ran across a website that I found very interesting. It is an “instant” create-a-story web page that allows you to be a writer by simply inserting a few words. http://www.world-english.org/instantstory.htm has all the details. Try it for yourself.
We have instant messaging. We have instant mashed potatoes. We have instant pudding and a hundred other instant examples.
Gore Vidal, writing in Matters of Fact and Fiction describes most people today as having a “a passion for the immediate and the casual.”
The “immediate” and the “casual” are enemies of what another writer called “a long obedience in the same direction.” Although Eugene Peterson of The Message fame has written a book by that title, he borrowed the phrase from Friedrich Nietzsche.
If you are on the Christ-follower journey you already know that there are no shortcuts. You have already discovered that the journey requires more than mastery of the facts of the faith. It requires taking one step after another in a lifelong journey. No room for an “instant” faith on this road.
There are no benchmarks just footprints. Benchmarks indicate that you have arrived at certain points in the journey. Footprints are living reminders that you are walking on the journey.
Christ-followers are on a journey….lots of steps…no “instant” recipe to get you to your destination.
Don’t let the “immediate” and “casual” rob you of experiencing the joy in the journey.
I ran across a website that I found very interesting. It is an “instant” create-a-story web page that allows you to be a writer by simply inserting a few words. http://www.world-english.org/instantstory.htm has all the details. Try it for yourself.
We have instant messaging. We have instant mashed potatoes. We have instant pudding and a hundred other instant examples.
Gore Vidal, writing in Matters of Fact and Fiction describes most people today as having a “a passion for the immediate and the casual.”
The “immediate” and the “casual” are enemies of what another writer called “a long obedience in the same direction.” Although Eugene Peterson of The Message fame has written a book by that title, he borrowed the phrase from Friedrich Nietzsche.
If you are on the Christ-follower journey you already know that there are no shortcuts. You have already discovered that the journey requires more than mastery of the facts of the faith. It requires taking one step after another in a lifelong journey. No room for an “instant” faith on this road.
There are no benchmarks just footprints. Benchmarks indicate that you have arrived at certain points in the journey. Footprints are living reminders that you are walking on the journey.
Christ-followers are on a journey….lots of steps…no “instant” recipe to get you to your destination.
Don’t let the “immediate” and “casual” rob you of experiencing the joy in the journey.
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