Quietness in the hustle bustle of life

Yet again I was reading a devotional passage from Streams in the desert, and I was reading about how God can use us to achieve greater heights if we allow ourselves to be alone with him. Somehow, there was this paragraph that just seemed to shout out to me, it felt so relevant to the needs of men and women today.

Earnestly desire to get alone with God ...... It may mean that we do less outward, visible work, but the work we do will have more depth and power ...... That people will see "no one except Jesus" (Matt 17:8) in our lives.

How is it then that we are now living in a time where society is obsessed with getting more done outwardly, just to show forth our "worth" and "efficiency". How is it that we couldn't care less about true substance and the meaning to why we do the things we do, and still think that we have advanced as a human race. We push ourselves each day to accomplish more and more, only to find that we have become so shallow that less an less of what we do matters anymore.

What has gone wrong? Where are we heading to? Maybe it's time we all took a day off our daily routine and take more than a moments time to get everything into the right perspective. The reason we move our feet is so that it brings us to where we want to go; but if we start running aimlessly not knowing where we are heading to, should we not STOP ... and listen to what our creator has to say?

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.    (Jeremiah 29:11)