TIME AND STRESS

(I wrote this in my notepad after the spring change to daylight savings time, and failed to post it.)

I’m guessing a lot of people are getting up late this morning—or at least struggling to get up on time this week—and not because they failed to change their clocks.

We punch buttons on our technology and get instant results, but we can’t change the fact that our internal clocks don’t operate that way.

Even if you went to bed earlier last night, something tells you that something isn’t right inside.

And the more we try to override the way we’re made in any area (even using technology and science), the more we add stress and distress to our lives.

In generations past, like the pioneer days, I believe people had more peace, time, energy, and emotion to deal with life, with less stress, than we do, because they had consistent rest, without arbitrary interruption in their schedule.

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Interesting how we still talk, and many complain, about the switches with DST.

It shows that we’re not designed to get used to such sudden, overnight changes.

We adjust to the seasons because they are gradual, and they are designed by the same Creator that made us to fit in His creation.

DO WE SHARE THE FAITH?

Do we claim to follow Jesus?

Do we assume that we follow Jesus?

If we do not freely share the faith when we get together with relatives and friends who also claim or assume they follow Jesus, do we indeed share the faith?

WHAT DOES YOUR SACRIFICE COST?

“Offer to God thanksgiving—then pay your vows to the Most High.”

If you claim (or assume) that you follow Jesus, do you have any vows to God—any sacrifices that cost you?

If you claim to follow Jesus—who knows that, and sees that, among your friends, relatives, and co-workers?

King David offered a sacrifice to God (a literal one), and refused to let the materials for the sacrifice be donated, however willingly.

He said, “I will not offer anything to God that costs me nothing.”

The question for us now, “Will I follow Jesus in a way that costs me and contrasts everything around me—and prepare to pay the price? And will I study my Bible every day to find out how?”

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The hazards of comfortable that I have referred to before, are now upon us.