I’ve felt it. Chances are you’ve felt it too. Life’s gotten boring. Stale. Stopped. It’s like everyday you get up to do the exact same thing with no end in sight. You wake up everyday, do a similar routine as the day before, and then go back to bed. You want to know how to get out of this. You want to know how to put the excitement of living back in your life again. Because inside we all know there is more to living than just breathing.
God made us to grow. Growth is the thing that allows us to progress in this life. It starts when we are born and should continue to happen until we die, but sometimes it feels like we stop growing and begin to feel as though we are wasting away. So how do we grow? We set goals and accomplish them. Goals that will challenge us and take us to our limits, so we can then expand our limits further.
The goals we set for ourselves often are just empty words. Humans have the bad tendency of giving up on something they don’t really care about at the first sign of adversity. However, the growth we experience in life is not displayed by the words of our mouths but the manifestations of our hearts. The things that our hearts desire to accomplish are the things that define us most. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” So, the things that our heart desires the most are the things we find the most motivation to accomplish.
As I have said in other notes, to do things it is important to understand that you are in control and capable, and also to have a positive attitude as to not defeat yourself. God gave us the blessing of free will. I call it a blessing because being able to control our own outcomes in life is one of the most joyful things he could’ve given us. “Being effective-changing things, influencing things, making things happen-is one of the fundamental needs with which the human brain seem to be naturally endowed, and much of our behavior from infancy onward is simply an expression of this penchant for control…The fact is that human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way, and research suggests that if they lose their ability to control things at any point between their entrance and exit, they become unhappy, helpless, hopeless, and depressed. And occasionally dead.”
I say all this about controlling our own life and setting goals because chances are most of the people reading them will have a common goal in life, and that is to be the best Christian we can be and to get heaven. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 says, “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.” We have to set specific goals to help us to improve our Christians lives. Some long term and some short term. We cannot run without a distance to run. And we cannot box as to fight air. And just the same, we cannot live to serve God without setting our actions and goals in life to that purpose.
So if you want life to feel like it means something again. If you want to feel like you aren’t living the same day over and over. If you want to live like you are becoming closer to the person God made you to be everyday. Then recognize the main goal He has set for our lives. A goal that’s when met will be like nothing you could’ve ever imagined.
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