So as I write this, it is 32 degrees, this promises to be the coldest week of the year for the country, it is cold everywhere! That is why the Missouri Synod decided that this week would be a good time to send the executives of each district to a conference in MADISON WISCONSIN!!!!!! What where they thinking?
But as I made my way to the temperature control of the house and tried to see just how warm I could make it, I was reminded of something. We pump up the temp and somehow think that if we set it higher it will get hotter faster, so we crank it up to 90. The truth is that it will raise the temp at the same rate no matter how high you have it set. You simply over work the system when you set ridiculous temperatures.
As we start a new year and we think about resolutions, we do the same thing. I am going to lose weight and so I go on the most restrictive diet that I can find, no carbs, no fats, no food that has any flavor! Then I wonder why I go off the diet so fast. Perhaps you make the reslove to get in shape, so you start working out for an hour everyday!!! Soon you don't go at all. You pledge to watch less TV and so you reduce down to 1 hour a day that you watch the news!!! You are unable to continue that either.
All of these things are just like the temperature in your house, they will only go so fast and moving to the extreme will only frustrate you. The same is true of our Christian Walk! We resolve to get closer to God and so we decide that we will read through the whole Bible this year, pray for an hour each day and never miss a church service. Surprise we last about a week! We need to realize that growing as a child of God is a gradual thing, we move closer and closer to Him as we ease into a closer relationship with the Heavenly Creator!
Let's resolve to simply be the children that our Creator would want us to be and know that this is going to take time and effort. Have a great 2010 as we live for the Lord!!
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