I just skipped eating lunch to go to the Y and excercise. My whole body is protesting. My workout partner counldn't make it today, so I am really proud of myself for going. I am usually a lot more motivated to leave the work on my desk and take the time to go when someone is waiting on me. It would have been much easier to stay here and mark 2 or 3 things off of my "to do" list.
The fact that we should always question the path of least resistence (like using ANY excuse to avoid excercising) fits well with our discussion yesterday regarding beans and potatoes. If you missed yesterday we discussed that there is room for everything we want and need in our lives if we will put the most important things on our calendar/schedule first, then allow everything else to fill in around them. The realization that culture pushes us toward the consumable things that others profit from was key. No one profits from you having a successful marriage or a strong spiritual life, so don't expect culture to push you in that direction.
This means that almost always the path that is most facilitated by culture, thus becoming the one of least resistence, will be toward profit and away from those things that should be most important.
May God stir our hearts to question taking the easy route. If you throw something at the trash can and miss, it is easier to "get it next time" than to go pick it up. If you are tempted to look at something you shouldn't look at, it is easier to look than to guard your eyes and heart. If you are tempted to worry about the possible, but unlikely, tragedies around every corner, it is easier to worry than to release all things actual and possible into the hands of God.
May we followers of Jesus be a people who do not take the path of least resistence.
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