“6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 NIV

“6 Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.” Romans 8:6 MSG

It is no strange statement to say that life is fast-paced these days. I recently read an article that detailed major changes in the world we find ourselves in mid-2020. You can read the article, which is made up of infographics HERE.

One remarkable thing to notice is that Disney Plus accomplished in 2 months what took Netflix 7 years to do! That right there is a mind blistering thought. The speed at which our world is moving today is faster than it ever has been before. Many things contribute to that but one is the world of technology that we find ourselves inundated with.

There is now a world that exists and is accessible 24-7, which is full of activity happening somewhere else.

Now more than ever you can be sitting next to someone and yet be engaged in a conversation with someone else thousands of miles away. I recently was at our weekend services serving in Lubbock, Texas, and simultaneously preaching to a church in Bogota, Colombia! The world we live in allows us to be in two places at once!

This morning as I read Paul’s thoughts in Romans 8 I was hung up on verse 6, more specifically the latter part of the verse, “…the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.” Or as Eugene Peterson in The Message says, “…attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.”

I am determined, now more than ever, to lean into a life lead by the Holy Spirit, to pay more attention to what God is saying and doing in me and around me at the moment. To be where my feet are. To take the world that is spinning faster and faster and leave it locked away in the pandora’s box that is my phone, my email, my laptop.