Stop
Create time to encounter God
ben Graybill
5/17/20262 min read
Interesting post to follow the previous one called Start.
I know, but hear me out.
If you haven’t read the previous post I released, the emphasis on starting is highlighted. Not for the sake of it, but because I believe imperfect action is greater than perfect inaction 100% of the time. No amount of overthinking is going to get you on the other side of your dreams or goals. So start moving.
While some of us are trying to start, many of us are in the thick of it — going too fast to slow down.
Two years into a new job. Promotion on the line. Thinking of kids. Buying a house. Friends over Monday. Pickleball Tuesday. Small group Wednesday. Soccer Thursday. Date night Friday. You get the idea.
Life picks up quick and sometimes just never slows down.
Sometimes we hate to admit that we don’t want it to slow down because that means we may need to face some of the things that scare us the most: ourselves.
How do we truly feel right now?
What burdens are we carrying that we don’t even recognize until we sit in the calm — yet chaotic — world of our thoughts and feelings toward life?
After college, I was honored to have been a part of a life-changing movement where we hosted men and women directly in the trenches and on the verge of burnout in their businesses, ministries, and churches.
I truly believe that our capacity is limited to the amount that our mind will challenge it to. And these people really did understand that. However, if we do not stop and reflect from time to time, we become weighed down by life and may no longer have the fire to continue the mission God has called us to.
I would encourage you to stop and reflect on what it is you need to keep you in the game and far from burnout. Make time to encounter God and allow Him to reveal Himself to you.
“Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only wise Jehovah take His ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that He may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in His service.”
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne