Jesus pace

There has only ever been one perfect person who has walked the earth and that is Jesus. There has never been anyone who has been perfect and there will never be anyone else.

I feel like I have to be perfect. I feel like there is some perfect standard that needs to be done everyday so that I achieve success in such a way that the world perceives it. I am just being completely honest. 

I often feel like I have to be perfect because sometimes I care about what other people think about me. I feel like I beed to have fancy things, a super nice car, and this perfect social media lifestyle. I feel like I need to make a lot of money to make it in this world, and that I might as well use it. I feel like I should be growing this massive business and working day and night to achieve it because once I do that I will make it! It often seems like I should be in charge. I am smart, I know what I am doing, why doesn't everyone else do what I am doing? I outwork them all. 

That entire last paragraph is what I feel like the fast paced pressure of this world wants us to feel. Go. Go. Go. Go. Grind day and night right? Society has all forced an image of how we should be living all the time. 

Think about the pace at which Jesus lived his life. Jesus did everything perfect, he was obedient and did everything God had wanted me too. Jesus would walk from town to town, perform these miraculous miracles, and then retreat to the wilderness to pray. He did this over and over again. Jesus didn't care about how many people saw what he was doing, he just wanted people to come to the Lord. 

We all need to start having a Jesus pace. A Jesus pace isn't this incredibly laid back, I don't care pace, but it's the idea that everything we chase after, that can easily burn us out, doesn't matter in the end. When our time comes, it's not going to matter how much we burnt ourselves out or what we have. We can't take those things with us.

I am guilty of not living my life at Jesus pace so one of the things I am starting to day is pray that I do. We create too much physical, emotional, and mental stress on ourselves when we live at the pace the world wants us to. Those feelings are not worth it! 

Let us commit to a life where we have a Jesus pace about all that we do. We have to make sure we still work really hard and give God all the glory, but those burnt out feelings are not worth the stress we put on ourselves.