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!! WHEN LIFE DOESN’T FIT 08.0217SM
PART 2: Simplify
Have you ever longed for the simpler days?
· ILL: I remember growing up…with not a care in the world
· Days down the street at the grade school playground (Van Buren)
· Tree Tag…basketball…when the older high school students…
Fall asleep in the car…
· Pulling in the driveway…with one eye open
· And letting mom or dad…carrying you to bed…so you didn’t have to walk
· Dinner together…around the supper table
· Homemade cookies…summer time lunch
· Swimming at Woodson pool…
· Bike tag…with the neighborhood kids
· Or piling 10 people into a station wagon…for family vacation
The simple days…they’re are nostalgic…aren’t they?
/But...as we get older…/
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We tend to live…crowded, empty lives
· Wouldn’t it be nice…to go back to the simpler days?
· Is it possible?
I mean…
· How do we restore simplicity to a life that’s become complicated?
Turn with me…to Isaiah 5
Isaiah 5:8 (NASB)
Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there is no more room, so that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
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In other words…
· Woe to those who add so much to their lives…that there is no more room
· Their plates are so full…their lives are no longer simple
· Their lives have become too complicated
And look at the consequences…
· “You have to live alone in the midst of the land.”
· You’re life is full of lots of activities
· But there’s little…if any…life found…in those activities
Does that not sound like the culture we’re living in today?
· And…that was written over 2,700 yrs.
ago
/Look at what else Isaiah says…/
Isaiah 5:9-10 (NASB)
9In my ears the LORD of hosts has sworn, "Surely, many houses shall become desolate, even great and fine ones, without occupants.
10"For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, and a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain."
10 acres of energy expended…will produce very little!
· All the busyness of our activities…will produce very little…if any fruit!
· That’s what you call…a wasted life!
/The words from the old “Eleanor Rigby” song by the Beatles are true, I guess…/
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“Ah, look at all the lonely people”
!! Loneliness is…
· An emotional state in which a person experiences a powerful feeling of emptiness and isolation.
· More than the feeling of wanting company
· A feeling of being cut off, disconnected and alienated from other people.
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There are lonely people…all around us…
· They look normal…they even act normal
· But on the inside…they are desperately lonely
· There are lonely husbands…no longer connected to their wife and children
· There are lonely wives…who yearn to connect to their husbands
· There are lonely children…and lonely teenagers
· Mom and Dad are there…and they’ve got their list of rules to follow
· But there’s no relationship
· From your parents side…you’re still growing up
· But from your side…you’d just like for someone to listen
! Talk about life not fitting…
· This is one of the greatest tragedies of our day!
· To live with someone…but to never really connect to them!
!! ILL:
Lonely people will watch endless streams of talk shows…
· Just to hear someone talk
· They’ll enter into destructive relationships…
· Thinking…any companion is better than none!
· Or they’ll pour themselves into their jobs and work long hours
· Because the loneliness is killing them…on the inside
You can have all the money in the world…and still be lonely!
· I believe…the loneliness in our nation is at epidemic proportions…
· Not because…we don’t have access to family and friends
· Not because…we don’t have things to do
· Not because…we’ve lost our ability to communicate
· But because…we’re a people who’ve become way to busy!
· We no longer slow down…to enjoy the life…we were created to live
· So we feel…like this square peg…being fit into a round hole!
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But God has a solution…to the world’s loneliness…
· There are actually some early warning signs!
!! ILL: Recent tornado…killing 20+ people…
· Sirens went off…but no one heeded
God has put some early warning detectors in place…to guard our lives…
· They are not as obvious…as a loud siren
· But if we pay close attention…they’re easy to notice
EARLY WARNING SIGNS THAT MY LIFE IS TOO BUSY:
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When CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS begin to SUFFER
A red alert five-engine alarm should go off…
· Any time we sacrifice loved ones for work or a busy schedule
This happens when we’re busy trying to make a name for ourselves
· When our main goal in life is to make $…or climb the corporate ladder
Whatever you do…don’t miss this…
· This is note worthy enough…to write down:
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No amount of success in the marketplace will ever make up for failure at home!
Someone once explained it this way:
The darkest place of a lighthouse is at it’s own base.
· This can sometimes be true of…even the best families
· You might be well-known in the marketplace…or in your community
· But it’s dark…at your house!
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Why is it…
· We skip over those people who matter most in our life?
· Why do we take those individuals we love…for granted?
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