Are You Stuck?

Am I stuck in my own world, afraid to see the truth that God is trying to speak in His infinite words. He is always trying to show us something through His word, through His teaching, through the songs we hear, the messages that are on the radio, they are intended not just to give us hope, but to show us the way to His truth. Those very messages are to ingrain us in Him, the one that loves us, the one that sent His son to die on the cross for us.

It is easy to go to church or even going through life with a mask on. If I come to work with smiles, someone will ask how I am doing and the very thing I am not doing is good, but the first response that I give is good. That is the mask talking, it is the mask that tells us what people are thinking, even though I have no idea what people are thinking. I listen to the lies of the mask, because it is ingrained in me to hear what only I want to hear, not the truth. I can enter each day wearing a mask and soon that mask is a part of who I am, no longer am I who God wants me to be, but a clone of a person I think that is right for the occasion.

I go to church and sit in a seat, listening and singing the songs, but do the songs really mean what they should to me, or am I so engrossed in my own thoughts, that I would sing anything they put on the screen? Am I lost in the thought that I just don't matter or all I am doing is just a ploy to get through the day. Then the Pastor gets up on the stage, speaks what is on his heart, but do I apply it to my life or just think they are just words that he is speaking, just not to me. I continue this existence of nothingness, because I have made a choice that anything that people say is not for me, because I am different. I have made a choice in my mind that no matter what someone says, it isn't for me, that I am just going through the motions of time and space to get through the day.

But what if, what if that all changed? What if I actually started to see that my choices, my decisions mattered, that how I treat others is exactly how I want to be treated? What if I started paying attention to my own actions, what would change? What if I started living intentional instead of living and going through the motions of life? Do you think that things would change for me? I truly believe that God has said that it take intentional to live, to move to have our being in Him, it isn't just that I wake up in the morning and expect it to happen, but I have to make a choice to live for Him. If I allowed my human side to decide everything, I would base everything on feelings, wants, desires and so on and soon I would be lost in a sea of ugh... Yes ugh, I wouldn't know which side is up anymore, because I would be like the world, just going through the motions in a day to day existence of what is or isn't real. I wouldn't truly believe and in not believing I could and would treat anyone like I want to treat them, because it doesn't matter. Are you following me?

God has said it very very clearly, He says treat others the way you want to be treated. Wait so am I giving someone an attitude? Well, I guess that is the same attitude I want to get back, because I am treating them just how I want to be treated. He talks about rolling our eyes, do you know that the Bible talks about that too, haughty eyes,

We seem to think that the Bible doesn't apply to us, that only when I feel like following its instructions, but the rest of the time I can do what ever I want, the Bible doesn't matter, but that is where we are wrong. God has given us direction for a very purpose of making us more like Jesus Christ, the more like Him we are, the less it matters about self, about what I want and transforms me into what He wants. Can you imagine actually taking a week, yes 7 days and living life to how Jesus wants me to live? Is that impossible? No, Jesus says if we love Him, we will obey His commands. Wait if I love Him, I will want to honor Him, it will be like the pull-volt jumper that when he heard the national anthem play, he actually stopped and stood at attention, because he wanted to honor his country, but yet we can't even take a moment to honor our Father in Heaven. Isn't it time that we start looking at ourselves; are we living the way God wants us to live each day? Are we putting on a mask and just going through the motions?