Sometimes I wake up to a glorious day, whether it’s raining or sunshine. Other times I wake up feeling like I’m being dragged out of the grave while I’m still dead to the world. Yet other times I wake up feeling good and things kinda drag me down hill. Those are the worst.
I know that when it’s a glorious day I’ll be very productive. I really like being productive. I know that on those days when I feel like one of the walking dead it’s just a question of tossing several cups of coffee down my throat before I wake up and get something done.
When I wake up feeling good and things go down hill I know there is some unseen thing going wrong. The back of my mind is trying to tell me that I need to change something.
Often this happens when I already know I should change but I’ve dismissed it in a state of denial. It’s not that I’m lazy about changing. It’s that I don’t want to change. I’ve cuddled up into my cozy comfort zone and I don’t wanna put down my hot cocoa and live some other way.
That’s exactly what happens to unsaved people who hear the gospel. They’ve comfortably sized up their lives and they don’t want to move into a different arena. Most of them are comfortable in their lifestyle choices and to actually listen to the gospel and act upon it they have to uncuddle.
Yes, it’s good news to them. Immortality! Eternal Life! Who wouldn’t want that? But it comes at a very dear price. The gospel requires us to change. It requires us to superimpose another life system on our own. That new lifestyle pattern will crush anything that doesn’t harmonize with it.
So, how do they deal with this uncomfortable gospel. Many of them shove it down into the back of their mind and ignore it. Our minds don’t like that, though, so it bubbles back up to the surface from time to time, forcing us to reexamine the issue.
Our brains are designed to make choices. Unexamined choices will drive us nuts if we let them. It’s better to face the issue and make a choice. That’s the only way I can handle it.
When I wake up in a good mood and it starts slipping away from me I have to examine my life to see what I’ve put off and refused to resolve. I face the problem. I make a choice. I live with the consequences.
I do that because I know that by not making a choice, I’m making a choice. If I choose to put off accepting the good news of the gospel until later I’m actually choosing to reject the offer of eternal life God has provided.
What choice have you made regarding the gospel? How is your day progressing? I hope you’re having a great day!
