Will You Change Your Life if You Don't Like Where You're Going?
Are you willing to be disciplined?
Yesterday I went to a chiropractor about my back (thank you to everyone who recommended them to me).
What I found out was good - adjustments could be made to help. But what showed up on the x-ray also told a potentially more serious story.
Basically, if I implement the exercises and changes the chiropractor suggests, I can avoid many back problems. If I don’t, I’m pretty much guaranteed to have significant back problems at some point down the road.
Make the changes, and enjoy the benefits - or ignore the problem and suffer the consequences.
This experience got me thinking about our spiritual lives - don’t we face the same scenario?
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. (James 1:22-25)
If we find sin in our lives when we look into the mirror of God’s Word, what will we do about it?
We will make the necessary changes and do whatever it takes? Or will we ignore the sin because it’s easier to ignore it in the short term than deal with it?
If we choose to ignore sin, it will lead to catastrophic consequences.
But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death. (James 1:14-15)
Will you change your life if you don’t like where you are going?
Will you change your life spiritually if you don’t like where it will lead?
Denying the problem exists does not solve anything - we must confront the problems and sins in our life and make changes.