For behold, this life is the time
for men to prepare to meet God;
yea, behold the day of this life
is the day for men to perform their labors.
If ever there was a frustrating aspect of my personality, this touches on it. I am lazy. I don't like to be, and I try quite often to overcome it, but thus far, I have been unsuccessful. "Cease to be idle" seems so incredibly impossible for me, and I don't particularly understand why. This aspect of my natural woman has such a strong grasp on me that my focus on this scripture this week has been a rather discouraging one.
I know this is not right. I know in my mind that I can bring this weakness to Christ and He can make it a strength through His grace. But I am unsure specifically how to go about this right now. My parents are incredibly hard workers. I almost never see my Mother, but she is working, or serving, or planning to do so. And then there's me with my overwhelming inertia and seeming inability to move past it. Surely the advice to "just do it" or "take baby steps" or "do a bite at a time" shouldn't be so hard. And yet it is.
I believe I will need more time to work on this concept and overcoming this personal struggle. I know Christ is strong enough to help me with this, what I doubt is my own ability to come to Him and stay with Him and do my part adequately.
I think I will pick a related scripture next week, and maybe for every week after until I feel like I am on my way to working through this.
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