STARTING

How easy it is to make excuses for not doing things. Oh the reasons can be so fruitful if you want to explain why one didn't do something.

Still, if one gets to the chore and reality, we know how all of this is just window dressing. That is always so hard to avoid.

Underneath is always the current of our real motives. We can hide from it or we can embrace it, but it doesn't mean we will always face the truth.

Not that we are any different from others in that regard. None of us is without the talent for practicing denial in that regard.

Procrastination often dogs us when we are face doing things we really don't want to do. It can really wear us out. That is the challenge that digs deep into our essence and speaks to what we fear.

So many things can intrude upon our actions. In the general course of activity that is often not the big problem we might expect.

One can easily avoid things like volunteer occasions, meetings or just about anything that there are few if any consequences. We just don't have to worry very much when we resist being involved. And so often it is not a question of fear. More of a lack of desire or willingness to be committed on such a level.

But on a spiritual level things are always different. For the devil will always stab us with reasons not to trust God.

Which is made worse by the fact that faith requires action. Without it we really are just keeping our trust in God in our head and never or heart.

It can be so easy do fail to understand how this is different. And the unenlightened person truly will not see the problem.

But they will feel it in due season. For it leads to certain hardening of the spirit. A slow deterioration in feeling towards all things spiritual.

And one can even spend their whole life treading the waters of such stagnant cesspool without ever regarding as bad. Just mosey along without a thought or concern that this is bad.

So often that will not invite any change. One will drift with the tide of resignation, never even suspecting how one is drowning.

Till one is beyond the point to feel the rip tide sucking one away from the lord and his ways.