Weightlessness of God

How heavily does God weigh into your daily schedule? David Wells writes:

“It is one of the defining marks of our time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that He is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God’s existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgement no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers’ sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out of the periphery of our secularized life.”

As you consider your daily routines, how much weight does God actually carry? If he appears to be nearly weightless, consider what needs to be done to correct the weightlessness and redeem the time.

Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.

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