APATHY, fatigue and doubting are
three common weaknesses in a life that can seem anything but controllable and
enjoyable.
We all have these most inbuilt of
needs that addresses the above three weaknesses of soul and spirit. We need:
1.
Life Purpose Beyond Apathy
Where there is no vision, the
people perish, as one version of Proverbs 29:18 puts it. We need a vision that
carries us over the cusp of our apathy — a response to life that’s far less
impressed with God than it should be.
Too many of us have learned to be
sceptics, doubting God’s integrity to give us a life that means something of
significance.
God’s enemy, of course, wants us
vanquished of vision. He wants us to live useless and banal lives. Not God,
however. He’s got a Kingdom he’s wanting to build through people like us. We’re
God’s labourers, precious ever more in his sight.
Life purpose is the eternal flame
lit deep within our soul. It’s inextinguishable, but we may feel nothing of its
heat. Our core is hot but we may feel cold. We need to believe. We need a
vision that helps us believe past the slack indifference of apathy.
2.
Personal Power Beyond
Fatigue
Life gets big on us sooner or later
and we feel defeated by the insatiable demands on our time and energy. We begin
to worry we have the reserves to support this venture that is our life. Scary
place. Too true!
If we have no personal power
energising us beyond fatigue we likely have no connection with that spark of
God’s Spirit that is there, again deeper down seemingly below our reach. It’s
amazing what vision can generate as far as energy’s concerned for the plain tasks
of living.
Having life purpose — and everyone
has this potential within them to connect with — will provide us the power that
powers us through fatigue. And still we need to balance life in such a way as to
not burn all our energies at once. Vision makes us use our energies — our powers
— prudently, diligently, wisely.
3.
God’s Presence Beyond
Doubt
God’s Presence will underpin our
life purpose, because when we know beyond doubt that God is alive in all of
life, and alive in us, we know
life makes sense even when it doesn’t seem to.
Encounters with the Holy Spirit are
indispensable for our sense of belief. Let’s pray for more of these to occur in
our own and in others’ lives!
***
We all need purpose
beyond apathy, power beyond fatigue, and God’s Presence beyond doubt. Purpose
powers us through God’s Presence; a trinity of forces of blessing.
Life purpose is the eternal flame
lit deep within our soul empowering us beyond any doubt for God’s good blessing.
Purpose beyond apathy,
Powers us through fatigue,
And where God’s Presence is beyond doubt,
This life, yours and mine,
Can only succeed.
© 2015 Steve Wickham.
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