The
other day the whole family flew from Toronto to Victoria. Flying can be an
adventure – especially when you are travelling with young children. This
most recent trip was probably the first one from which we all experienced Jet
Lag. Jet Lag is an awful feeling. It wastes your whole day. We have only one
week’s holiday and during that time I have some work to do as well and the
whole first day or even two are wasted.
Jet
Lag is when you feel so tired you can’t really enjoy your day or be productive.
It is only when you get over this that you can do what you need to do and experience
life.
Are
there times we suffer from Spiritual Jet Lag? We want to pray and read our
Scriptures and associate with other Christians in a Christian context, we want
to even sing praises to the Lord and thank Him for everything but we just seem
to be lethargic instead.
God
really will get us where we are going a lot faster than any jet but sometimes
our strength will lag behind us. This is why there is this encouragement from
Ephesians 5 to wake up and live as the wise.
One
successful way to get over your Jet Lag is to try to set a normal routine – get
up, eat, and go to bed at the proper time. Soon enough you will be back at
life.
Likewise,
when we become Spiritually Jet Lagged, we are encouraged to get back into our
regular routine of daily worship: pick up our Bibles, read a word or two; pray
– speak even just a sentence or two to God and listen; call up a Christian
friend and encourage one each other with testimonies about what God is doing in
our lives.
As we
do this we will find that soon we will wake up from Spiritual Jet Lag and find
that we are able to enjoy serving the Lord again in the fullness of our daily routines.
- Salvogesis original
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