"...And the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful." (Mark 4:19)

Several years ago, newspapers carried the story regarding a new Navy jet fighter which shot itself down. Flying at supersonic speed, it ran into cannon shells it had fired only a few seconds before. The jet was traveling too fast and ran into its own cannon fire and thereby destroyed itself.

Perhaps you, too, are traveling far too fast in this life. If you don't have time to worship God, study the Bible, and pray, surely you are going too fast. If you can't find time to do the Lord's work, visit the sick and needy, and teach your friends and neighbors, truly your desire and love for other things has over accelerated. If you have allowed the things of this world to choke your spiritual life, you need to slow yourself down or, like the jet, you will destroy yourself.