It is getting colder now. The nights are dropping into the mid to low 40s making the morning pretty cool as well. Yet during the day it is getting up to the high 60s and low 70s. So I am left with a question, do I turn on my heater or nor? With my heater on, I wake up my house (just an over glorified mountain dew can I know, but it is my house) is warm, if I don't, the waking up and getting out of bed process is brought to a whole new level of horrible. I just lay there using anything as an excuse to avoid the wrath of cold that is about to be wrought upon my body. Yet I know no one else is going to turn on my heater for me in the morning. No one else can, my doors are locked, and even if someone was to come in with the quote intent of "I'm just turning on your heater" they are most likely a liar and a thief.
The same is for those times when my affections towards God cool. No one is going to light a fire in my soul for me. I may feel encouraged to rekindle the fire, by a John Piper sermon or by a brother to pursue Christ more, but unless I start making choices to pursue Christ, I will not "make war on my flesh" as Piper says then my light will be dim.
It would be like me calling a friend and talking to them about how I don't want to get out of bed and they urge me to get up and get ready for work, I may feel motivated (especially if I were to call my Dad) but unless I get up, nothing changes. It would be absurd if I blamed my friend for my lack of initiative towards getting up. I would be lazy if I was always dependent on someone to be pushing me to get out of bed. This is age appropriate for a child but not a man in his mid 20s.
The same is for those times when my affections towards God cool. No one is going to light a fire in my soul for me. I may feel encouraged to rekindle the fire, by a John Piper sermon or by a brother to pursue Christ more, but unless I start making choices to pursue Christ, I will not "make war on my flesh" as Piper says then my light will be dim.
It would be like me calling a friend and talking to them about how I don't want to get out of bed and they urge me to get up and get ready for work, I may feel motivated (especially if I were to call my Dad) but unless I get up, nothing changes. It would be absurd if I blamed my friend for my lack of initiative towards getting up. I would be lazy if I was always dependent on someone to be pushing me to get out of bed. This is age appropriate for a child but not a man in his mid 20s.
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