Fbc Eugene

A favorite quote from a favorite movie is by an ex-con named Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption. Brooks spent most of his life in prison, finally making parole as a gentled old man. Dropped into the outside world in the mid-1960’s, he felt lost and overwhelmed. He wrote to his buddies back in prison, “The world got itself in a big damn hurry.” I smile every time I hear that line. I have to wonder what old Brooks would say about the pace of life today. We live in a culture of speed and immediacy. Joshua 5 reminds us that God’s pace is radically different from ours. Just when it made complete sense for Israel to rush ahead, God hit the pause button. The purpose for that pause is life-changing.