Lichfield Cathedral
So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.
Hebrews 10:35-36 NLT
There was a time in my life when I used to react to the repetitive nature of life that returned unchanged each morning I woke. All I could see was sameness. I slowly came to recognise, however, that my depressed nature had little to do with my repetitive life. It was the way I chose to frame my daily routine. There are demands life places upon each one of us, and responsibilities, many of which are self-inflicted. I had a mortgage to service, yet I chose to buy a house. I needed work and I had said yes to the job offer. I was failing to see through the prism of my faith in God, again something I’d chosen to embrace.
Much of life is simply “patient endurance”: proving steadfast in the face of difficulties. My difficulties were all within. God gives me my life and I’m invited to live it in the light of his acceptance, forgiveness and grace. To resent life is one aspect of denying God. In conversation with God, I came to see that I had the capacity to live confident that he was with me in every moment of the day, or to experience ongoing dissatisfaction, yearning for something I didn’t have and could not attain.
Many people long to win the lottery in the expectation it will turn their existence into a fairy tale. But it would be no more than a fairy tale; an escape from reality. We are invited to discover obedience in the practical realities of our own life. Your life is a precious gift from God. Call out to God for God is alongside you and alone can lift the burden of monotony.
QUESTION
What do you yearn for?
PRAYER
Thank you for what you have given me, Lord; help me to appreciate it.
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