Why do we become so lazy sometimes? Why is it that some days, some weeks, and some months the things we have to do become like mountains that are waiting to be climbed? Where do those certain days or even years of completely avoiding all that you know you should do come from?
I think back sometimes to a time when I was a teenager and all I wanted to do was what I wanted to do, even if it meant grounding or even jail. As a teenager we seem to almost ignore the consequences of our actions. We drank underage and bought cigarettes with fake IDS. We saw rated R movies behind our parents back and snuck out past curfew. We bought the music they said was not appropriate, we went to places that were forbidden and even wore the things they thought we’d never even dream of wearing. We rebelled. We did it because we wanted to test the waters, see what we could get away with, and find out how many bad choices we could choose without fully reaping the consequences.
In our adult lives are we still rebelling? Is our avoidance of our bills and work and exercise a rebellion, still testing the waters to see how many bad choices we can make before we drowned?
Why do we naturally want to test the waters and do our own thing? Why do we have such a hard time just turning off that tv show to go for a walk. Why do we have such a hard time picking up our stuff when it would be so easy to put it away as soon as you were done. Why do we eat chips and a soda for dinner when making dinner would be so much healthier for our bodies?
Our natural disobedience is naturally causing our own demise. Our inclination to disobey is making it harder on ourselves when we choose the things in which we know will ultimately be bad for us. If we choose TV over walking, how much harder is it to walk when your hart doesn’t know how to pump fast anymore? When our bills and papers and cloths are piling high how much harder is that project to tackle when you finally do? When we eat chips for dinner and never learn the simplicity of cooking thru continual practice, how much harder is it to learn later on when the pounds of laziness sneak up on your once small frame.
We rebel because it’s human nature to want to do our own thing. God gave us the free will to choose our destiny but sometimes we choose poorly. We prize our time as a precious commodity and rather not fill it with things that were told to do. In the end, our disobedience is the thing that robs us most of our time because what once was a small pile of bills is now a mountain too daunting to climb. What was once a few cloths to launder is now a sea that were slowly sickening to the bottom of, and that clean and pure heart that once ran so well is now clogged and slowing needing to be fully detailed jumpstarted flushed and rebooted.
So is there hope for the mess we have created and the mountains we have put in our path? I think so. Jesus says “because of laziness the building decays and through idleness of hands the house leaks” (Ecclesiastes 10:18) Everything crumbles when laziness creeps in but he gives us a promise of hope. He says , “And you He made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins, In which you once walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and or the mind and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others, but God who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together in Christ ( by grace you have been saved) and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:1
So, if we ignore our pride (proverbs 11:2), be obedient to the words of wisdom and just do the things we continually put off, only good can come. And, if you have already created a mountain don’t worry God Forgives you and says he’s there to help if you trust that he will.
Lauren Vopatek
Thank you, Alex and Abby for your amazing contributions. Ps I wish Rice Crispys would pick up themselves.
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