REINVENT

REINVENT
REBOOT: Creating a New Normal
September 27, 2020

First instituted in 1901, speed limits are assigned to increase road safety and reduce the risk of traffic accidents. For a long time, individual states were responsible for determining their own speed limit laws. After oil shortages in the ‘70s, Congress established a national maximum speed limit of 55 mph which was signed into law by President Nixon in 1974. Congress returned speed limit authority to the states in 1995. Since then, 34 states have raised speed limits on some parts of their roadway systems.

Regardless of what the posted speed limit is, it seems we always want to go faster! I try to obey the speed limit, but it’s so easy to just “go with the flow” of the traffic around you, then glance at the speedometer to discover you’re flying down I-5 at 10, 15, or even 20 miles per hour over the speed limit! I mean, not me, of course! You know who I’m talkin’ to!

Speeding is a major threat to road safety. It accounts for more than 13,000 deaths a year, and it's estimated that speeding-related crashes cost over $40 billion a year. Though it’s clearly a dangerous activity, almost all drivers speed.

This “need for speed” isn’t necessarily limited to our pace on the roadways. If the last six months have revealed anything to us, it’s the unsustainable pace at which most of us have been living life. What if blowing through our days, weeks, and months with barely a moment to breathe is just as dangerous to our souls as flying down the freeway at breakneck speeds is to our bodies?

As much as we all think we want things in our world to go back to “normal” after Covid goes away or a vaccine is found, I’m not sure “normal” is all that good for us. So how do we leverage the lessons of a less frantic season of life? What lessons can we learn from the limitations of this season that might be beneficial as we look toward creating a more sustainable, healthier pace of life in the future?

We’re in week three of our fall sermon series called REBOOT. We’re taking a look at what it means to thrive in every area of our lives, even in an unsettling and uncertain season. God has good plans for you. Let’s explore what His Word says about that together!