Tip/Tidbit: Holiday seasons can encourage taking on too much and letting go of disciplines important to our spiritual infrastructure. Let’s make sure we do not compromise ourselves in ways that will encourage future injury. Rather, let us keep “building up (ourselves) on (our) most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.” Jude 20. Try setting a timer to remind you to spend time with God throughout the day.
I’m familiar with back trouble. It can come on suddenly, right in the middle of doing an ordinary task. Just bending down to move a blanket off a couch can unleash an electric shock. In the moment, surprise flickers. “I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary,” I will think. The problem lies, not with what was in the process of occurring but in the condition that previously existed. The spine has already been compromised before the moment the pain is felt. Such is the case spiritually. When we find ourselves in a surprising, negative situation, we may tend to think, “What happened? How did I wind up here? How in the world did I do/say that?” The truth is our hearts were already compromised. Somewhere along the way, we let go of something valuable, those daily exercises in self-discipline that supported our inner man, or we picked up something we should have left alone, weights and sins we weren’t meant to carry. If left unattended, back trouble, whether physical or spiritual, can escalate and where once we were able to stand tall, we hunch in deformity. The good news is that “growing a spine” or “standing strong” can occur by building daily support systems and laying aside things that encumber. Quite by surprise, we will note that we’ve developed the kind of character that has us asking, “Wow! How did I wind up here?”
Tip/Tidbit: Holiday seasons can encourage taking on too much and letting go of disciplines important to our spiritual infrastructure. Let’s make sure we do not compromise ourselves in ways that will encourage future injury. Rather, let us keep “building up (ourselves) on (our) most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.” Jude 20. Try setting a timer to remind you to spend time with God throughout the day.
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