Daily Reflection: 29 Mar 07

The time anyone spends with Jesus in day-to-day life is the opportunity for allowing God to fulfill the covenant that has been given to us through Abraham in the OT and Jesus in the NT.
Surely the covenant God has made with us offers a challenge. No doubt, like OT people, we in today's culture find sinfulness separates us from God in varying degrees. It is so easy to let the mindfulness, the awareness, of God slip from consciousness. Work, family obligations, the daily running often leave no time for quiet, for peaceful reflection because we seem to have accepted what modern thinking proposes: see how much activity can be packaged in the daily waking hours. To allow any blocks of time in a daily schedule is, seemingly sinful: it is failure, it is not keep up with my colleagues at work or the other families in the neighborhood. Can you find a place in the bible where we are instructed to be busy always?