Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devoted

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. Good morning indeed. We were

picking up with a exciting new devotion on the Bible app titled The Ruthless Elimination of

Hurry, which is based off of one of Tori's favorite absolute books ever. I'm obsessed. Yeah,

so we're in day one there's a link to that in the description of the podcast. You guys want to

fall along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and Tori's going to pick up

with the divo. Let's do it. The scripture is Matthew chapter 11 verses 28 through 30 and it says

this, then Jesus said, come to me all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give

you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart and you

will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear and the burden I give you is light.

The devotional is titled Un Hurry to the pace of Jesus and it says, the philosopher Dallas Willard

once called hurry, the great enemy of spiritual life in our day and urged followers of Jesus to

ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. When I first came across Willard's anti-hurry vision

of life in Jesus' kingdom, it struck a deep chord in my soul and yet his culprit for the great

enemy of spiritual life is not what I would expect. I live in one of the most secular progressive

cities in America, but if you were to ask me, what is the greatest challenge to your spiritual life

in Portland, I'm not sure what I'd say. How would you answer that question? I bet very few of us

would default to hurry as our answer. And yet the more I think about it, the more I agree.

Cori Tinboom once said that if the devil can't make you sin, he'll make you busy. Her logic is

sound. Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect. They cut off our connection to God,

to other people, and even to our own soul. Many of us are just too busy to live emotionally

healthy and spiritually rich and vibrant lives. Granted, there is a healthy kind of busyness

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