Readiness Thinking...

READINESS THINKING…We understand the idea of readiness. We get ready for work, ready for vacation, ready to go the gym. We get ready to go out to dinner, ready to go to bed, even get ready to get out of a chair. Every time we have another cup of coffee in the morning, we are getting ready(emotionally) to get ready(physically). I think it would be interesting to know what percentage of our day is spent getting ready for something. It’s possible we spend more time getting ready than actually doing what we’re getting ready for. I wonder if we apply ‘readiness thinking’ to our spiritual lives? Or do we consider spirituality a ‘whatever happens’ thing. Here’s a good nudge for us…
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to
the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down…and let us
run with endurance the race God has set before us.” ~Hebrews 12:1
There is a fact we need to revisit occasionally…we are walking a road that millions have walked before us. And as they came down this path they did so with soberness, with reverence, with energy, with sacrifice, with works in their hands…they were ready to walk this road well. We have gotten a bit slothful in our faith, by comparison. This is not my lone assessment…it is the mounting voice I am reading over and over again. I read a book about Christianity every couple weeks. With every one I pick up, here it comes again. Another voice saying, ‘we need to pick up the spiritual pace America’. There has to come a season in our life when we get serious about why we are here. There has to come a time when we choose to break out of the survival cycle…and identify the race God wants us to enter. There has to come a day when we start stripping away the things in our life that keep us from doing well in our called race. There must come an hour when we actually get ready for the race God has entered us into. Many have ran it. Some gave up, Most didn’t. Our turn! ~verlon