Thursday, February 26, 2015

LESSEN YOUR BOREDOM TIME (Continuation of Series)

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Let me share a story.

As a woman finally finished reading a book, she closed it and sighed, “That is the dullest book I have ever read.”

As the fickle finger of fate would have it, she later met, fell in love with and married the man who had written the book she had been so bored with a few years before.

So she decided to read the book again.  This second reading produced a completely different impression.  She found it exciting and informative, and could hardly put it down.

What had changed?  Not the author.  Definitely the reader because she now had a relationship with the author; loved the author and in the process proved the fact that love gives new meaning to anything and anybody, even to life. 

          That’s right, when you form a relationship with the author of your life…YOUR CREATOR…you will have a completely different attitude toward life.

          Philippians 4:8 offers an antidote for boredom “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” 

Indeed, think about these things, and then follow through and do them.

You are what you think.  Yes, what you think, is who you are. What you think up to do…and be…and say, defines you. 

Such as: Are you compassionate toward another human being?  Really compassionate.  You can’t love people and treat them like you love them and be bored. 

Do you say the word “God” with so much enthusiasm it warms your soul? 

And what about the all out love Jesus talks about?  Practice it as against the normal human tendency towards dislike, greed, jealousy and all of like kin and kind and who you then become is, to say the least, certainly not boring.

Is boredom a sin?  NO!  Is it a disease?  YES!  And there are cures

When was the last time you did something you used to enjoy but hadn’t done for weeks or months or years?

It isn’t just that as we grow older, we grow lazier.  It is just that, if we are not careful, we allow ourselves to grow lazier until finally getting up out of a chair can become the most exciting part of the day.  Not to go somewhere.  Not to do something new or resurrect something wonderful from the past.  Just getting up.

In short, if are you are not willing to settle for a boring life, then don’t be content with mediocrity.          

In fact, if somewhere along the line you gave up on some physical, or mental or spiritual exercising effort, you unfortunately took the first step on the slippery road to a boring existence.

You think I’m being facetious?  That I don’t seriously mean what I’m saying?  Well consider the following.  At work do you find yourself killing time… doing as little as you can get by with?  At home do you expend as little effort as possible being a better parent or mate?  Do you have no dreams for tomorrow, no deeds in the recent past of which you can be proud? 

          And when you retire, is it your plan to do as little as you have to? Dedicating yourself to idleness, to nothingness?

          Sure, resting is wonderful, but it is a thousand times more wonderful if you are resting from having done something worthwhile that enlivens your mind, body and soul.

          Unfortunately, I have lost the name of the author of the following story, but it could have been written by many. And I am not recommending poverty when I share it, but listen deep and think about the message it sends

          “Take somebody who knows what it means to walk to school with a lunch wrapped up in a little brown greasy bag; somebody who knows what it means to be required to move but nowhere to move to; somebody who knows what it means to be forced to pay up but with nothing to pay down; somebody who knows what it means to wet their pillows with the midnight dew. 

          “Take somebody like that, and you will find passion, you will find feeling. For people like that, God is real; they live on the edge.  Life is not boring for those who know they are needy.”

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