Choices = Changes

Don't you think that sometimes our spiritual lives just seem to take a beating?  It seems easy, at times, to cave in or to yield to any number of things:

1. laziness or apathy
2. rebellion, even of the mild sort
3. temptations (often disguised in the form of "fun")
4. and the list goes on....and on.....and on.

Why does that happen?  I'm sure one could come up with any number of reasons or "excuses", but if we were to be most honest about answering that, our immediate response would be that we allow it to happen to us. 

When we find that our spiritual condition is less than what we want, or not what we know it can or should be, it's time to start thinking about some choices we might need to make.  But first....by identifying that our spiritual condition needs "tweaking", we have already started to focus on just how to accomplish that....by making some changes.  Change doesn't just appear.  It isn't some mystical power that just drops out of the sky on us.  Change comes about because we make choices.  We choose to do those things in our lives which we know will bring about the changes we yearn.

The very first choice we make in our effort to improve our spiritual condition is whether we really want that change or not.  Then we start to identify those things in our lives that can hinder that change, and we choose to work on those issues.

We each have available to us a tool bag to help us as we choose to make changes.  In that tool bag are the Word, friends to hold us accountable, prayer, community groups, and more.  But...we have to choose to use those tools on a regular basis.

How have your choices been?  Are there things in your spiritual life that need changing?