RIGHT

I’m sitting at my desk on Sunday night. Nothing different for me. Just another weekend at work.

Today as I was going through my usual rituals that I’ve done for years I was trapped in thought about the routine. I can hardly call it thrilling.

And it is always predictable. Still I derive a certain satisfaction over doing it correctly. Taking joy in the effort to do what is proper.

Oh I could take short cuts. I could excuse the lack of faithfulness. Find a way to explain not doing my best, but I would know it.

Which is interesting to me in some ways. I’ve known so many believers who have found a reason to not do what they are called to do.

Doesn’t matter if it is at work or church. They manage to find that process to avoid what the Lord expects.

The problem is faith is more than faith in the Lord and His word. It is the essence in the heart that when the Holy Spirit is present affect all parts of life.

To leave it at the church’s doorstep is to do otherwise. To apply it to the faith, but not to faithfulness in life is to deny its real function.

How can we truly be witnesses for the Lord if we don’t express it fully? Easy question to ask, hard one to answer.

Still we do have to try and find that right path. To embrace the truth and see it clearly. Not steer away from our duties.

How easy it is to talk about this. But with every choice, every option we exercise, we truly find ourselves expressing the truth.

Doesn’t mean some will embrace it. They will find joy in doing it in a way that impresses, but never touches deep inside.

And conviction truly does have its moment of confrontation. One will never walk by faith without finding a few valleys.

Whether we stroll through them in the same vigor as the mountain top will test our real arena of trust.

And nothing we say can deter this reality. Just is a matter of whether we actually find it a good option or not.

That is decided in our hearts.