Perspective of time in a consistent journey.

Set yourself in this scene: You drive every day from home to school or from home to work. This 'pilgrimage' is undertaken most days and is a necessary procedure for every-day proceedings. You seat yourself in your car and drive. You know which route to take (though you might at times experiment with other routes), and you know your surroundings as you take this journey: the dense urban traffic or the peaceful farm track, the beeping of horns or the rush of wind on your face, the sound of heavy machinery and workmen shouting orders. All this after a while becomes unnoticeable and we tend to glide past without the slight curiosity or a hint of acknowledgement. However, this is a great contrast to the first few journeys that were undertaken to work or school. The object of our attention was the present not the future, and an inescapable desire to know and become familiar with our new surroundings; but as we become more familiar and comfortable with our surroundings we spend less of our focus on our immediate surroundings and more on the future events. We see a major shift and what was a journey that used 85 percent of our focus now uses 60 percent or less. So to get to the point, the journey that seemed 15 minutes long now seems like a 10 minute trip, But why is this? To be brief it is because we have less objects to focus on and become familiar with, because we have seen and taken in our surroundings thus thinning our focus to only the essential things. We have begun 'just going through the motions.'

This is also a great reminder of how we live our spiritual lives. In the business of the phsical we need to remember the spiritual. We need to stop going through the motions of Christian life, but rather wage ware against the enemy. We need to remember that we have great influence in these battles and have many ways to do this. God has blessed us with one of the most deadly weapons - prayer. Through prayer we can accomplish anything, the boundaries of the unknown are cast down and God's hand is planted firmly in place providing us with a way to battle.

'The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.' Romans 13: 12.

We need to stop going through the motions and realise how much of a difference we can make. We must have the passion and the drive to serve God now when we have the opportunity. We need to seize every opportunity that falls into our path and grasp it with both hands. We need to fight for the Kingdom.

'And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.' Romans 13:11

I don't wanna go through the motions

I don't wanna go one more day

without Your all consuming passion inside of me

I don't wanna spend my whole life asking,

"What if I had given everything,

instead of going through the motions?"

by J.O.Pike