April 24, 2008
I was talking
with a team member today and we were discussing some things we had
procrastinated on and even maybe where we had gotten lazy in some things.
It is sometimes
easy to put thing on the back burner to deal with more pressing issues. My
friends just last weekend cleaned out a garage that they couldn’t get their
car into because of all the extra stuff they had. I, myself go through periods
of letting the computer room and my garage get into a mess. There are little
things that get large because of our lack of maintenance in areas like the car,
house and even our lives.
I started
thinking how easy it is to become complacent, to not notice the little things
that need doing. To become comfortable with the small repairs undone.
Then I started
to think of the cumulative effect of all those little repairs. How something new
and fresh becomes old and stale because the small things were left undone.
It’s like
that in our spiritual life as well.
There are lots
of small areas that we know God is calling us to be faithful or obedient in that
we overlook. Some day, some time, when we have the time, we’ll get around to
doing them.
I have to
wonder if it hurts Him to see us like that. We are wonderful creations, that He
invested eternity in, yet we allow ourselves to fall apart slowly, to drift from
Him, to become complacent in our faith.
What have you
been a little slack about lately? Your prayer? Time in His Word? Your giving?
Maybe it’s a
character flaw that you don’t want to hear Him on. A little gossip. A bit of a
complaining nature. A cold heart. A foul mouth.
When you
accepted Christ, you became new:
Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Has the new
creation become a little like the old one? How’s the maintenance?
Until next
time, may you truly open yourself up to the internal remodeling God is calling
you to do.
God
bless.
Darrel
Mason