Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved.
Psalm 127: 1-2 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
“The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by Pastor John Mark Comer
Hurry involves excessive haste or a state of urgency, a state of frantic effort one falls into in response to inadequacy, fear, and guilt.
It is associated with words such as hurl, hurdle, hurricane.
We should take it as our aim to live our lives entirely without hurry. We should form a clear intention to live without hurry. One day at a time. Trying today.
– Dallas Willard
“If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“What would my life be like if I allowed God to touch my mind as many times as I touch my phone?”
– John Ortberg
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.
Psalm 127: 1 (NRSV)
It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved .
Psalm 127: 2 (NRSV)
Do you know that you’re His beloved? You’re His treasure? You’re the 1 He’ll leave the 99 to come rescue?
The bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world… I am the bread of life. Whoever believes in me will never go hungry…
John 6:33-35 New International Version (NIV)
Am I living on the bread of anxious toil, or the bread of life?
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Isaiah 55:1-2 (NIV)