It's one of those days that you find yourself laying around on the couch watching some bad tv show that will rot your brain. Your creativity takes a back seat to your sluggishness. Getting focused and getting motivated is like two turtles racing a slug. You'd like to read your bible, do a devotional reading, pray today but your mind and body says take a nap. So you pretend to do something religious like clean your desk so you can do those things. Better check facebook, e-mails, religious websites to see if someone sent me something religious.
Some days it's just hard to get motivated about doing righteous things because the world has an array of fun stuff. We get addicted to X-box, sports, jobs, hanging out.
Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider it's ways and be wise!" Proverbs 6:9 "How long will you lie there you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?" Proverbs 20:4 "Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing." Proverbs 21:25 "The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work." Proverbs 22:13 "The sluggard says, 'There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the public square!"
So how do we get motivated and get back too our spiritual fervor that declares I'm so on fire for the Lord they had to call ten fire departments. Motivation doesn't pick and choose when it's gonna strike. No one is going to light a fire under the seat of your pants to get you to move. Motivational speakers don't really motivate they just play on your feelings and weakness. I find that motivation is a result of Passion that we have for something. You either get out of bed, off of the couch, out of the house because you have a passion for something. It's a choice you make to get your mindset off the burnout mode, and switch it to the I'm on fire mode. You flip the switch when you put into action the things you need to accomplish even if your not giving 100 percent. So you weren't as motivated today as yesterday, so you lack passion. What was really important was that you took a right step forward and made progress.
Psalm 7:17 "I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the Lord most high." Let us do these things in the mist of our sluggishness and blaze a trail for others to follow. Ralph Waldo Emerson; "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
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