Title: The Dismaying Delays of Life
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Isaiah 55:8-9
Isa 55:8 KJV - For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 KJV - For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I - The Painful Reality of Delays
II - The Helpful Reason of Delays
III - The Mindful Results of Delays
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Discipline of Delay
I don't have time for this now! There is not a day in my life when that phrase, if not passing over my lips, is flitting about my consciousness like a careening moth. The internet is slow. "I don't have time for this now!" The car won't start. "I don't have time for this now!" The dog needs to go out. "I don't have time for this now!" "Dad, can you help me?" "I don't . . ."
The internet is slow and you just can't do the research that you wanted to do. So, there you sit. Eyes fixed on the monitor as that obnoxious "wheel" slowly grinds away. With each little revolution you can feel the heat beginning to rise through the narrow gap between neck and collar.
Time is pushing itself past you and you can feel it literally escaping like hot gas. Like Mona Loa, each blurp and hiss of time literally heats the air around you. The eruption is near. Time is about to blast forth, wasted and useless it will lurch into space and there is no way of hanging on to it. It's on a mission and you're not booked. What a frustration. The time you had so carefully plotted out to "get something done" has escaped once again. A new allocation of time has appeared from out of nowhere and it isn't the one you wanted or anticipated. "But I was in a hurry and I wanted that time. This is no good! I don't have time for THIS time!"
Everyone is in a hurry these days. Things are carefully planned out and allotted for their timeliness. Christians ar ...
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: Isaiah 55:8-9
Isa 55:8 KJV - For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isa 55:9 KJV - For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
I - The Painful Reality of Delays
II - The Helpful Reason of Delays
III - The Mindful Results of Delays
This sermon contains a fully alliterated outline, with subpoints.
The Discipline of Delay
I don't have time for this now! There is not a day in my life when that phrase, if not passing over my lips, is flitting about my consciousness like a careening moth. The internet is slow. "I don't have time for this now!" The car won't start. "I don't have time for this now!" The dog needs to go out. "I don't have time for this now!" "Dad, can you help me?" "I don't . . ."
The internet is slow and you just can't do the research that you wanted to do. So, there you sit. Eyes fixed on the monitor as that obnoxious "wheel" slowly grinds away. With each little revolution you can feel the heat beginning to rise through the narrow gap between neck and collar.
Time is pushing itself past you and you can feel it literally escaping like hot gas. Like Mona Loa, each blurp and hiss of time literally heats the air around you. The eruption is near. Time is about to blast forth, wasted and useless it will lurch into space and there is no way of hanging on to it. It's on a mission and you're not booked. What a frustration. The time you had so carefully plotted out to "get something done" has escaped once again. A new allocation of time has appeared from out of nowhere and it isn't the one you wanted or anticipated. "But I was in a hurry and I wanted that time. This is no good! I don't have time for THIS time!"
Everyone is in a hurry these days. Things are carefully planned out and allotted for their timeliness. Christians ar ...
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