Faithfulness
I’ve been stuck in a season of … for no better words “grudging faithfulnees”.
It’s not a flashy season.
It leaves little to “write home about” and in many ways it can tend to feel boring.
This is when doing what I should can get hard for me.
Maybe you can relate, or maybe when times are steady and the same you thrive most.
I personally can feel a lack of joy in the same old same old.
Buy the same groceries, eat the same meals… because I’m being faithful to stay in the same budget.Clean the same chairs, wash the same dishes, drive the same car, pick up the same toys…It can make me FEEL like I have a problem I need to fix - and the way to fix it is to get (or experience) something new! But that pesky budget only allows for so much and it cramps my ability to get that newer, beautiful, more fun thing …whatever it may be…
(Please tell me I’m not the only one who feels this way!)
This is when we can tend to blame our budget for “not letting us have fun”. But in reality, our budget is imploring us to be faithful, even when life isn’t giving us what we feel we need.
Faithful obedience doesn’t always lead to a reward we can see right away
It doesn’t often give us that instant gratification of buying or experiencing a new thing… but I must say, being faithful has never left me regretful like chasing after a feeling has…
The same-ol’-same-ol’ can be a great season to teach ourselves how to be courageously perseverant when the world tells us “we need something NEW”!
To courageously pursue Jesus as our source of joy.
To courageously speak the truth about how good the things we already have are.
To courageously seek contentment.
to courageously walk faithfully in what God has shown us we need to be faithful in.
To be brave enough to seek out the beauty in the life we are living right now.
Being faithful in the dry, hard, boring parts of life can lead us to see a whole new layer of beauty in the rich and satisfying season too!
