Many of us feel stressed out, spread thin, and exhausted from treading the same beaten paths. The irony for many is that all our hard work and busy schedules are spent chasing after the ever-elusive margin we wish we had. I’ve heard margin defined as, “the space between our load and our limits.”
It’s the breathing room we all need in our lives. It’s the buffer between where you are on your rope and the end of your rope. When a person has margin in their life, they can weather the storm. They can get pushed toward the end of their rope, but still, have enough left at the end to hang on. But when a person is at the end of their rope, they have no margin. One little thing can push them past the edge. And they fall. Hard.
Jesus was never in a hurry. He was not rushed, or anxious about the next “thing”. What if our lives reflected that kind of peace? What if that was in fact what you and I were created for? Chasing Margin will help us all find freedom off the beaten path.