Letting Your Soul Catch Up
Story★★★★An exploring party, with the help of national guides, was forcing its way at fast pace through the jungles. Still far from the day’s agreed-upon destination, the national guides sat down.
“Are they sick?” the national leader was asked.
“No.”
“Are they tired?”
“No.”
“Then why are they stopping?”
The leader explained that they had a good reason. They had traveled so far and fast, that it was time for them to stop “until their souls catch up with their bodies.”
The shortening of private devotions starves the soul.
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE.
The point
An exploring party stops in the jungle so their souls can 'catch up with their bodies,' illustrating the spiritual danger of frantic activity disconnected from devotion and inner life.
Scripture
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting · Comforting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 99 words