Crowded Lives

“Their number was countless thousands, plus thousands of thousands.” Revelation 5:11b

It takes me twice as long to get from my home to my office as it did just a couple of years ago. I don’t know where all these cars and people have come from, nor why they insist on traveling along the same path I do each day. I turn left into the parking lot of my building by crossing a major thoroughfare and most times I wait for several minutes to find an opening in the traffic. I’m thinking Wyoming or Montana is the answer.

I know also that this verse of Scripture reminds me of the distractions that occur in relationship to our obedience to God’s call on our life. To focus our attention on Heavenly things, our responsibility to one another as the family of God, our commitment to the local Body of believers, adequate study of God’s Word, and ceaseless prayer, is not easy. In fact, that may be the understatement of the year. And in that regard, even Wyoming and Montana won’t help.