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“Break The Routine Of Autopilot”
Ecclesiastes 1:5 NLT
The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.
This past week, we read chapter 1 in Ecclesiastes in our men’s Bible study group. This passage stuck out to me and the word that really jumped out was “hurries”. I read this passage and I think of daily routines. The sun rises in our day, we often hurry through the day, then the sun sets, we go to bed and we do it all over again the next day, the day after and so on.
I’m not at all against having a routine each day, but I do think we so often get into autopilot mode with our routines and we don’t think twice about the hurried state we are so often in each day. We go from one thing to the next and we often are doing this at a high rate of speed through the day.
When I get home from work each day, I often find myself cleaning things and taking little time to sit down and just relax. Then, on the weekends, I find myself making a long list of things I need to take care of and I’m off to completing those. Again, it’s not at all wrong having lists of things we need to take care of, but we do get into such routines that we don’t break away from and just enjoy the moments God gives us.
My wife and youngest daughter are often reminding me to just sit down and take breaks from the routines I’m into each evening and on the weekends. If we are focused on all of our routines and the tasks we need to take care of day in and day out, then that is meaningless. We must balance chores with spending time with family and just enjoying some down time. We were never meant to go full blast all day, every day and not take time to take life in and just chill.
Years ago, I read a book by John Mark Comer titled, “The Ruthless Elimination Of Hurry” and it really got my attention. There are times in our lives when we just need to sit and do absolutely nothing. Watching a sunrise or a sunset. Sitting down and watching traffic go by or watching people. Too often, we fight initial boredom by taking out our phones and passing the time scrolling, looking up things online or checking e-mails.
I want to encourage all of us to be intentional about breaking out of our routines each day and taking time to notice our surroundings and get of autopilot so that we don’t miss opportunities around us. Opportunities to be alone and take life in and also opportunities God puts around us with various people.
Let us break the routine of autopilot.
