I am awed by the technology that is available to us in our world. Here I am in a meeting with annual conference leaders for evangelism while writing my article. Then in a moment I will post it and it will go out instantly.  Stop to think about it, this is all done in real time and instantly. However, there is a drawback to all this.

With e-mails, face booking, blogging, and now twittering, if you sneeze about 80 billion people know it.

Here is the problem: It means that we don’t often stop a reflect on the matters and depth of life and faith. We want instant answers and instant responses to life and life’s situations. When we don’t find easy answers and easy solutions, we can become easily become discouraged and disillusioned with those around us and with God Himself.

We don’t just think and reflect. Thinking and reflection and praying and conversing and waiting for God can lead to a profoundly deeper understanding of life and your role in life itself. It allows us to take time to ask the profound questions. One of which is WHY?

It doesn’t have to be in the greatest dilemmas like “WHY did my husband have to die?” It can even in lesser WHYS like why am I here? Why am I a dentist? Why do I have enough kids to keep me broke for the rest of eternity. That one may not concern you but I have been struggling with it but that is a different article.

I want to invite you to take time to just slow down and reflect upon life, your role in it and God’s plans and purposes. Let me suggest a way to do it. Begin by finding a favorite Scripture verse or passage and then spend an entire week of reading that same verse over and over again and then think about what it means to you. I think that be the end of the week you will find you are deeper in faith and life.

 Peace and grace. Reed.