Presented to River Street Cafe, 08 January 2018 by Michael Ramsay
and presented to TSA AV Men's Breakfast, 29 October 2022
Read Ephesians 5:18-20
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.
Read Ephesians 5:18-20
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.
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