I follow Texas Longhorns football -- online, thru blogs,and on Sportsline during games. And Indiana University basketball. The Panthers, too, only I can see them on TV. I have to stop myself from being too interested.
It's easy to think about sports. There's no resistance, I don't have to move anything.
That probably means it's not very important. Because moving important, valuable things is a challenge. There's resistance -- it could be people or circumstances or my own limitations, or spiritual (yes, the Devil). It takes effort and work to overcome inertia and the temptation to sit still, go easy, be comfortable. It takes perseverance and prayer and faith to not give up.
The temptation is to avoid this. You can work hard and long, and yet still be lazy. Lazy in not committing to be involved with God in valuable movements.
It takes work to move furniture into an empty room -- to create a room that wasn't there before the work. It takes work to move furniture around in a room -- to change what was there before the work.
It's a lot easier to work when you don't have a choice -- when you have to because if you don't, the consequences will be worse than the work.
But what do you do when you have a choice? Or THINK you have a choice? If you feel like God wants you to do something, but you're not sure, does that mean you have a choice?
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