In light of how we have seen God with us, in similar and consistent ways to how God was with Jacob, how do we align our lives to that reality? In particular how do we make space in our daily rhythms to actually be with the God who is with us. When we consider the life of Jesus we see that he lived out rhythms of silence and solitude, prayer, synagogue on a sabbath, etc., and called his disciples to follow him in his way of life (to take up his yoke). Our lives look very different from the lives of those who followed Jesus back then. In particular busyness and digital busyness, push space for being with God, being shaped by him, and being used by him, to the periphery. In this series, we will be looking at the Rhythms and practices of Jesus and seeing how we can incorporate those into our 21st-century lives. The point is not to add more to our lives, but to restructure our lives with less so that we can be in God's presence, be shaped by him, and come to know him. The goal of the gospel is to be with God. How do we re-align our lives so that we experience that reality more and more in this life?