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PROGRAM D-7383
I’m convinced that frequently I confuse activity with accomplishment, how about you? If I go home at the end of the day tired because I’ve been going all day, I have a sense of a day well spent. And yet, if that day was not spent in meaningful activity, activity which makes a difference, then I’ve simply confused activity with accomplishment.
How do we as Christians keep from being swallowed up in this rush mentality? I am convinced that one of our greatest witnessing tools to the generation in which we live is a peaceful, meaningful, centered lifestyle.
Believe me, people all around you are staying busy to fill up the empty spaces inside of them. And they recognize peaceful and tranquil when they see it. It is attractive; it is what they’re looking for. How often do they see it in your life?
Janet is a Board member here at The Christian Working Woman. She accepted Christ many years ago, and the thing that brought her to that point of acceptance was the tranquility of one of her co-workers.
She has a PhD in Biology and at that time worked in a very rushed and hectic scientific lab. She said the atmosphere of that lab was frantic all the time. The deadlines and demands were very stressful, and so, rushing was the order of every day.
But in the midst of all this, she noticed one man who did his work as well as the rest of them, who was as smart as everyone else, but somehow in the midst of that chaotic environment, he never seemed rushed or frantic.
After observing him for a long time, she finally said to him one day, “Jim, how can you be so calm in this job?” And he shared his faith in Christ with her, and encouraged her to start reading the Bible. After three months of intensively searching Scripture, Janet accepted Christ and her husband followed shortly thereafter. Their lives have been totally changed since then, and it began by observing one Christian who was not rushed like everyone else.
We need Christians in this rushed and hectic world demonstrating the peace and tranquility of Jesus Christ. How are you doing in that department?