The Hurried Christian Syndrome

How often do we have excuses not to pray or to pray later? How often do we have excuses for one of a million different things that could draw us closer to the Lord?

What is it that makes us as Christians think we need to hurry though life and hurry through prayer like we are in a big hurry to get nowhere? What is more pressing than spending time with the Lord? What’s so important that we neglect our duties as Christians and we wonder sometimes why non-Christians look at us and wonder why we think we are so different, when in fact in some ways we are truly not setting a good example, when all we do is rush through this, and rush through that, we want hurried prayer, hurried church, and hurried fellowship, because we have something so much more pressing to get through but what is it that we are really trying to get accomplish.

Several years ago I heard of a drive thru church, where you actually put your prayer requests and they prayed with you through a drive thru window, and I could not help but think what is this world coming to when we as Christians do not have the time to actually talk to and pray with someone face to face not through a drive thru window, come on, do we really need to rush through our prayer life the way we rush through the ten items or less line at the grocery store?

I was thinking on this the other night when I was reading a devotional by Luci Swindoll where she talked about how we have things so much easier than the generations before us, and yet we have less time for the things that matter. We do not cherish family and friends the way others before us did, and the art of conversation has all but died out. We want what we want and we want it now, without realizing that what we want may actually be detrimental to us rather than beneficial and the good Lord really does want the best for us, not the world’s best, but his best, and his best is so much better than the worlds.

We have emails and instant messengers, but why is it we spend so much time just going from place to place instead of spending time with those we care about and more importantly spending time with the Lord? Why are we not putting our priorities with Christ? Now don’t get me wrong I am not saying all Christians are in a big hurry to go nowhere, but in this day and age so many are. We have let so many of the wonderful things of…