The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Dallas Willard once called hurry “the great enemy of spiritual life in our day,” and John Mark Comer is convinced that he’s right: hurry is the issue under all the other issues and the root cause beneath so much of the anger and anxiety of our cultural moment.

Followers of Jesus are not immune to culture’s pain. Many of us live with a low-grade fatigue and chronic anxiety that rarely, if ever, goes away. We careen through our days at breakneck speed and wonder where God is in the fray.

The reality is, most of us are just too busy to live an emotionally healthy and spiritually vibrant life. Comer suggests that hurry is incompatible with the way of Jesus. The love, joy and peace that form the nucleus of Jesus’ kingdom are all impossible in a life of speed. We must, as Willard went on to say, “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry.”

Author: John Mark Comer

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