Do the Work

I know you have your work projects and your house projects and your garden projects and your craft projects and … well … you’ve got plenty to do. But what are you working on in you? How are you growing?  How are you changing? What are you looking at, being curious about, praying about, and rethinking in you?

There are several reasons why perhaps you are not.

You may have created a life that may not be completely what you had hoped for, but it is manageable, it is predictable, and you can control its outcomes. Or at least you think you can.

Or, you may have the auto-pilot function of your thoughts and habits turned up high and it would require far too much energy to jump out of the track you have created.

Or, you may have told yourself that this is just the way you are … this is just the way “it” is. Turns out, this is not true. This is certainly the way you have become and this is certainly the way it is right now, but this is not the end of the story!

If you look back at yourself 5 years ago, 10 years ago, are you now more loving, more grateful, have deeper relationships, better with your finances, slower to anger, less prone to offense, more forgiving, more present and alive to your life every day?

2 Peter 1: 5-8 tells us “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (emphasis mine)

Transformation is an inside job. The reward is great.

It will not occur without our “making every effort”   We must “do the work”.