Today in his sermon, my Pastor, began to talk about this plague that has infected humanity down through the ages. We as believers must be especially aware of this "Tyranny of Urgency" because this can easily throw us off track in our Christian walk and witness.
On the surface this concept doesn't sound so bad… Why not do, what is urgent? Why not do, what is pressing? It seems that we have confused urgency with importance. In modern life and vernacular the two have become synonymous, however they are not. For urgency is born out of emotion while importance is born out of wisdom.
Today's world is constantly screaming of things that must be urgently handled while scripture and Christ proclaim that which is important, the gospel. If we do not have a set of things, chiefly the gospel, that are important which structure our lives, then we are at risk of being taken hostage by the Tyranny of Urgency. If we are not grounded in those things which are important; then urgency will ever toss us to and fro, because we have no foundation in which to stand.
Let us not be tossed about from day to day ruled by the temporal urgencies of the day but grounded in the eternal importance of the gospel…
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