The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

by John Mark Comer

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”

“Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.”13

And how we spend our time is how we spend our lives. It’s who we become (or don’t become).

Following Jesus has to make it onto your schedule and into your practices or it will simply never happen. Apprenticeship to Jesus will remain an idea, not a reality in your life.

And like all habits, they are a means to an end. This is where well-meaning religious people (like myself) go wrong. When the spiritual disciplines (Bible reading, prayer, Sabbath, and so on) become an end in and of themselves, you’ve arrived at legalism. Therein lies death, not life.