Moving Fast

He in the (DFW) Metroplex where I work and live there are lots of new highways. Now we learn the speed limits (on some) were set without proper review. The limit supposedly has some connection to the “average” speed of traffic. Now that the studies are finished, it’s clear that the limit is well below the actuality. So, the powers that be say they will raise the limits “unless it increases air pollution.”

Here’s NEWS – Leaving the speed limit lower will not change the speed of the traffic – as it obviously hasn’t so far. It’s just more “feel good” rhetoric (about air pollution). If we want to slow the traffic -that’s easy. If we’re not going to slow the traffic, just raise the limit. How hard is this stuff anyway?

Of course we have the same problem in the Church of Jesus Christ. It’s not that we’re moving too fast, but rather we get caught up in what I call the “feel good” movement. We want everything to feel good, go our way, make our day. The reality is, life is tough, some people are hard to llove, it’s impossible to please all the people all the time, and being a believer in a world gone mad with sinful passions, we’re swimming against the tide. There are some times you can get your shot at feeling good (and at the Church I attend there’s a significant number of them). But most of the time, in the real Church of Jesus Christ, it’s just hard work – meeting need, lloving the people, working through the struggles, and slowing down enough to hear the Spirit’s still, small voice. But then, that’s why I llove it! I have come to understand the calling to “work, for the night is coming when no man can work.”