Bored to Life
I will admit that my life is fast paced. I won’t bore you with the details because in all honesty, we would probably argue about whose life is the busiest. (And if I didn't argue out loud I would argue in my mind...and win.) We wear this ‘busy’ like an honor badge on our chest. How did we get like this? When did we start believing this was the way that life was successful?
Instead of feeling any millisecond of boredom, we grab our phones. Instead of subjecting ourselves to our minds thinking deep thoughts, we turn to busyness. Even when we are sitting in rooms with those that we love the most, we proudly announce by taking out our phones that something outside of that room is more important than the time with them. We sit with God for a checked-box amount of time because stillness and solitude with Him are foreign concepts that seem, honestly, like a waste of our precious time. What have we done and how do we get back to silence, solitude and true communion with the One that we say we follow?
First, we start in the Word. The literal manual for life. The definition of success. The roadmap for getting back on track. The Bible is an open invitation to know God more deeply and therefore, it invites us to know how to know him more deeply. I wrote this Bible Study to help make that invitation accessible. It is a journey from hearing things about God to knowing Him more deeply. The goal is that through simple, clear, and practical engagement with God’s Word, we will grow in our understanding of who He is and how to live life with him at the real center- not just the center we created for him outside of our busy lives. My hope and prayer through this is that we will learn to create stillness inside of our ordinary lives where we invite God to move. Where we learn to slow down, recognize the presence of God in the ordinary, and live an unhurried, attentive life with Jesus.
