Lazy Bones or maybe It Is Fear

I am not very patient with myself if I perceive I am being lazy. I do not like to be thought of as lazy. I do not like to be lazy.

But, I also do not like to fail.

I have collected a few thoughts, meditations on the topic, too lazy to bring them into one cohesive essay, I readily admit they are disjointed and I fear inserting the joints because of a stilted sort of perfectionism. 

This is an exercise in overcoming both moods and letting you and God sort it all out

Sitting Here

We sit and wait for something to move us.

But nothing does.

We wait some more.

Nothing.

Then it occurs to us that maybe, just maybe, we have to move ourselves.

Then, in moving, we figure out what we are doing and where we are going.

It is really hard to move anything with the brakes on.

It is time to get up and get going.

"The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth!" Proverbs 19:20

 "When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments."  Gerald F. May, , The Awakened Heart 

The Journey Is the Destination

" I see Him walking on the waves, no shore in sight, no success, no goal, just the absolute certainty that it is all right because I see Him walking on the sea. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God. " - from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers.

We are all at sea. We are all vulnerable to waves and apparent chaos. He comes walking toward us and we ask, "Where are we going if we follow you?"

It is, perhaps, the wrong question.

"God's end is to enable me to see that He can walk on the chaos of my life just now." - Chambers

So, we walk on it with Him ... and the journey is the destination.

"The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child." - Thomas Kelly

So Much Goes Wrong. 

"And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the lord of song

With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah." - L. Cohen 

 

Who Is the Boss?

 

The Kingdom of God is the reign of God.

It is no more and no less.

It is that reign in human hearts and in concentric circles of community.

It is that reign in societies and in the cosmos.

Finally, ultimately and initially,, it is that reign in Heaven now and through eternity.

The Kingdom of God is God's reign. 

But I Might Fail the Boss.

 

"Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."

- Lloyd Jones 

It Will Not Destroy God or God's Plan if You Fail.

"The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah"
Psalm 46:6-7
English Standard Version

There are some things you can seem to count on that will be going on all the time somewhere.

There will be raging of nations.
There will be kingdoms tottering.
Somewhere, the earth will be melting.
Always and everywhere, the Lord of hosts is with us.
Always and everywhere, the God of Jacob is our fortress.

 

 

A Major Mask - Perfectionism often Disguises Its Paralysis As Laziness.

We are afraid to do anything for sake of the greater fear of getting it wrong.

Perfectionism is a set-up because

(1) it usually revolves around our limited understanding of perfection which is inordinately influenced by someone else's limited understanding of perfection and even deeper misunderstanding of us, and

(2) generally just imperfect because perfection is essentially completion and if our vision of the finished product is flawed our outcome will be even more flawed.

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." -by Anna Quindlen

The road to perfection is allowing God to make us who we truly are and were made to be.