Though I am always in...
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"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry." So wrote John Wesley, in Letters (1831), dated December 10, 1777.
To be in a hurry is to go about doing nothing, really. People know you are not with them, and things do not get connected. Therefore, nothing follows from it.
To be in haste is to be efficient, good stewards. The quality of doing is not lessened by acting in this way --it is heightened. So, what is done fits the requirement of "good." It produces results.
Jesus was urgent --the Gospels compel us to recognize this. He went about --in haste, never in a hurry. Because he was not distracted by his business, he encountered the people he met. He did good in the acts he performed. Long range results came out of his "doing good."
To be in a hurry is to go about doing nothing, really. People know you are not with them, and things do not get connected. Therefore, nothing follows from it.
To be in haste is to be efficient, good stewards. The quality of doing is not lessened by acting in this way --it is heightened. So, what is done fits the requirement of "good." It produces results.
Jesus was urgent --the Gospels compel us to recognize this. He went about --in haste, never in a hurry. Because he was not distracted by his business, he encountered the people he met. He did good in the acts he performed. Long range results came out of his "doing good."
