Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: February 16, 2014 | 10:00am
On any given Tuesday, if you stop by the Cornell house, what you find will not be something all that remarkable, no sonnets being written or no theological expositions poured over, no invention happening, or any other creative genius for that matter. That’s because Tuesday in the Cornell household is laundry day. When Amy is at White’s Residential Services all day, ministering to the students and faculty of that campus, daddy has a special day with Christian and Annie jumping into piles of clean clothes and trying to fold them before Annie knocks them over.
It was so funny – just a few weeks ago, I was home with the kids and I called Rick up on the phone, and as we were talking I asked him, “Hey, what are you up to right now?” He said, “I’m just folding laundry,” and I said, “Guess what…me too!”
Life is not meant to be lived with our foot perpetually on the gas. Inevitably, there will be down time. We live in a society in which burn out is a very real danger because people have lost touch with what it means to live in healthy rhythms. Researchers and physicians have actually come up with a label for this epidemic of our culture. They call it Hurry Sickness. Hurry Sickness is when we move everywhere fast. This racing mind syndrome prevents us thinking deeply and prolonged. Hurry Sickness actually deteriorates our personality; we can’t form pleasant memories because in our rush, we can’t dwell in any moment for longer than a moment.
This sort of discontentment is probably what the Israelites felt as they wandered the wilderness, worried about the next step. And as a result, they lost touch with who they were and where they were going. Last week, I suggested that what God was saying to them is: I know you’re lost and disoriented and you don’t know where you are, but I know where you are and I know where you are going. I know you feel hurried and harried, but “I am” with you.
Today, we move with Israel into a new chapter of their journey with God: a life of rest and routine, a life in between big events.
Download the entire transcript here: Joshua 1 Promised Land
