We have been talking about “I can’t Stay Here” ...

... and we have used Elijah as an example.1 Kings 19:4 (NLT2) “Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.” Maybe it is just my imagination but it seems like more and more of my conversations with friends and church people are spent on weariness, over commitment, and just being border line ready to quit. When you run into someone you know and you just ask a simple question like…What is going on with you these days? I am way too busy…I am on the edge of burnout…I am doing way too much. So what is the result of this pushing and pushing and going and going? We are doing more and enjoying it less.

1. We deal with inner weariness. We have all had our list of commitments and obligations grow and grow (all good things) and many do not know when enough is enough. I have warned our pastors about once a month commitments. The good news about being this busy is having so many opportunities to use our gifts and skills for God. The bad news is the increasing amount of fatigue and frustration in our spirits.

2. There is always one more thing to do. I constantly pray that nothing will happen in my week to interrupt what I already have to get done without having a major sense of dis-ease about things still undone. Notice the two words – dis-ease and disease. MacDonald – Anyone who has given themselves to the leading, caring, or developing of people knows that there is always one more thing that could be done or done better and more completely. Psalm 27:4 (NKJV) “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.” Jesus is our example of just slowing down. J.B. Phillips – “It is refreshing to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock. He was acting, He said, as He observed God to act---never in a hurry.” I can’t stay here…I must be like Jesus and I must seek Jesus!