God's Not in a Hurry

I'm back. Yeah, it's been a minute. Sorry about that. The reality is, I don't get paid to do this. So when my attention needs to be on my day-to-day job, I have to prioritize my time. Thus, I'm Just Saying needed to be paused.

Here's the thing. Earlier in my faith journey, I would have felt guilty for that. I would have felt like I was letting God down because I wasn't thinking about my faith, reading my Bible, or even dedicating time to pray. Religious institutions would have most likely affirmed that guilt, telling me I wasn't prioritizing the things of God.

But as I've grown older, matured, just a little bit, I've come to realize that the hustle towards spirituality is not Biblical. No, I'm not saying your spirituality doesn't matter. I'm just saying the sense of urgency we all live under to make God number one is a self-imposed, church-imposed problem that doesn't exist in the Bible. What we see is a God who is perfectly fine working within decades and centuries of time, having moments in people's lives, and then absent altogether for much of it.

Of course, we are getting the highlight reel when reading these stories, but what they don't show you is the everyday struggle to just exist in the midst of the new realities they've onboarded about Jesus and his Kingdom. They go to work, raise their kids, try to be good friends and neighbors, all the while pursuing this resurrected person named Jesus.

I say all this just to encourage you. If you've ever been like me, where seasons of your life aren't all about your faith, it's okay. Jesus is still with you, he is still for you, and is probably closer than you think in those moments.

I'm just saying…