Excited about Jesus or Steady in Your Walk...which is better?Those of you who know me well understand that I have a personality which demands that I must always be involved in something new and exciting. I want to be challenged with some fresh idea or with some concept or action that demands my attention. Within days or a few short weeks, I am ready to move on to something different.
Some of my friends are not built that way at all. They don't like change. In fact, they hate change. They want life to be slow and predictable. They love to know what they are going to be doing next week, next month, next year, and next life.
I can see the pitfalls of my personality. Now that I'm rapidly approaching sixty years of age, there is less and less about Christianity or church work that I haven't heard before. I've tried a lot of methods, and have been excited about a few of them. I still love Jesus...I love His ideas and radical lifestyle...but, right now, I'm not too excited about it. I'm stuck in the mundane. And I don't wear it well.
But, this could be the right time for being steady. It could be the right time to walk things out. It could be the time to learn how to put those concepts into practice. It could build that dreaded thing called character.
Could be. What do you think?
4 comments:
I don't like change at all, but you know this about me. Just yesterday I was saying that I love going to your parents because nothing ever changes and then we get there and they have a new couch. I said "where's my couch?"
I don't seem to mind change nearly as bad when it comes to God. I like the not knowing what is going to happen with church services and I love new moves of God.
I think that I have times where we are excited about Jesus and where we are just more slow and steady. The danger for me in the slow and steady times is not growing cold in God. I tend to do that, which then seems like it is always an uphill battle to get back on fire for God.
They always say slow and steady wins the race and maybe that is true, but slow and steady is sometimes boring or falls into a going backward. If I could figure out how to stay hungry during the slow and steady, that would help.
Change is what makes the world go round. I mostly love change...I love changing my hair, my clothes & have even been known to change furniture around & not tell Cort & then he falls over it when he comes in! I do admit though that when you do stuff like put the instruments in the middle of the sanctuary & we are all in the round it takes me a bit to shake that one off!
Jesus was a radical & always changing up stuff so we should learn to adapt to change & even welcome it as a challenge.
One of my best friends recently told me that I am hard to read because I don't get extremely happy, excited, sad, mad, or whatever. We laughed about it because it is true. I am not sure that it is a good thing to be so flat about everything. Some people call it steady, and some call it numb. I think it is just another part of my control-freak nature. I like change, but not chaos. I like organized, systematic change. :) I am not much like God obviously.
This blog that was recommended to me by my friend Donna-is very interesting. I like the subjects that make one think.
Steady or excited' Seems to me that one can have both. I have found in what you refer to the mundane is often the times to notice things that are overlooked-the little small miracles that God gives freely everyday.
For example-The peace that I have inside of me in times of chaos-Praise Jesus' Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Every good and perfect thing comes from above-I cannot look out of my window and not see this-in many ways. Praise Jesus'
Draw close to Him and He will draw close to you. Praise Jesus'
As for change-God never changes and my Jesus has never failed me-because He cannot. This is joy unspeakable and full of Glory.
If I look through the eyes of the world-life is mundane and dreary.
This I must think is a believers choice-I chose to look through the eyes of my Lord Jesus-who shows me that all things are possible and to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. Praise Jesus'
A foundation built upon the rock of Jesus-will always be steady and exciting. Amen' Praise Jesus'
This is the day the Lord has made-I will rejoice and be glad in it'
God Bless'
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