Last week during World Changers, I was trying to teach my cousins and a younger youth some basic calculus for fun ... since they all ranged from middle school to 10th grade (and let it be known that I'm not gifted in mathematics in any way but for some reason I have fun teaching the math I do know). I didn't plan it, but I was trying to equip them by teaching some life lessons to go along with me teaching them basic calculus. Of all I remember teaching, the main word/idea/thing (that they somewhat forgot) that I was warning against was apathy.
I've been learning some of the deeper rooted things that I've found that rob me of my joy in Christ. It's what produces boredom, laziness, and something in the core of my heart that says "I was meant to live for so much more" and "there must be more than this." The following words have been what I've found the deeper issues to be. They all relate to one another:
Apathy, complacency, Lukewarm-ness, religiosity, cowardly fear, mistrust in God
Father, Would you stir my affections toward You? Would you stir in my heart an yearning, insatiable thirst for Your scriptures? Would you put to death my apathy and laziness. Would you breathe a violent, zeal to please You ... to bring You glory? Help me Father. Help us.
-It's not shown here, but during World Changers, God granted me one of the most beautiful pictures of the gospel. Luke 18:9-14 has been a text that has been plaguing my life the past month or two and it's almost like God showed it right before my eyes as my fellow brother in Christ could not even look up. Bowed before a cross, with face planted to the ground between his knees, all he could do was cry out for mercy. Amen.
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