Many times we don’t feel like doing things. We come up with excuses for not doing something. And we come up with some really convincing excuses at times. And our culture today seems to have become even more feelings-based.
One of the things we are often compelled to do is just go with how we feel. But where will we end up if we do that? Some of the things we don’t feel like doing are the most important things for us to do. For example, going to work every day is important so we can pay the bills. The reality is, we make the effort and take the time to do the things that are really important to us. So, we do things all the time that we don’t feel like doing. The difference is, we just find good enough reasons to do them.
Some times when we have tasks that we don’t always feel like doing, they require a commitment to undergird our actions. If we make a commitment it can keep us going in the difficult times. For example, there are times when I don’t feel like writing every day. Some that is because I feel I lack something to say. Other time it’s because I just don’t feel up to it. This is where a commitment to the task becomes important.
The reality is, that actions only based on feelings are a pretty shallow way for us to live. When we get our focus off of our feelings the question changes from, “What do I feel like doing?” to, “What do I need to be doing?” When I change my thought process to what I need to be doing, then I’m going to produce better outcomes for my life. We have to make a quality decision about some things in our life. We have to decide the things that are really important to us. And to those things we need to attach our unwavering commitment. The good things we commit ourselves to will, with a day-in and day-out commitment, get us to a destination we can be proud of. If we are unsatisfied with the place are in, then we need to ask ourselves the question, “What are the things I am committed to, regardless of how I feel?” What are the things we are doing with a bull-dogged commitment because we know the outcome is worth the effort?
Very often we are coming up with the wrong answers because we are asking the wrong questions. What I feel like doing is irrelevant. What I need to be doing is the question at hand. Especially today, we need to fight against this feelings-based mindset. Part of the problem we are in as a culture, and as a nation, is rooted in this subtle shift in the public consciousness to legitimize feelings at the expense of our convictions. Unless we recognize this, we will easily fall prey to a thought process that will lead us to a destination we hadn’t anticipated—a destination leaving us empty and void.
I believe when we have a proper understanding of God’s goodness we naturally become more thankful. And I think that sometimes begins by us looking at what He has created. God and His nature are represented by the things that we can see He has created.
AV Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” This is the beginning verse of the entire Bible. This is where what we understand today had its beginning. It’s remarkable to think of. I wonder what it would have been like to be there at the beginning of all creation. But we naturally know that the things we see started at some point in time.
AV Colossians 1:16: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” This verse states that not just things we see were created by Him, but all things that we cannot see were also created by Him. There’s not only a physical realm, but also a spiritual realm. God created this as well. And it also says that these things were created for Him and His glory.
AV Romans 1:20: “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” God created this world with such an order and complexity that it would obviously point to Him. It’s the order and complexity that points to a creator. It says that these not only point to His existence, but also tell us something of His nature and character as well.
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AV 2 Corinthians 9:15: “Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.” In this ninth chapter to the Corinthian Church Paul speaks of their liberality in giving and ends with this verse thanking God for His ‘unspeakable gift’. I think Paul wanted to end with mentioning the greatest gift of all—Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. This is the culmination of all gifts God has given to us. We can not only be thankful for this gift, but also thankful for the gift giver. For the gift reveals to us the heart of the giver.
AV Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” But of all of God’s creation, His greatest creation was us. And He expressed His love for us by the death of His son Jesus on the cross. And God not only created everything, but He created a way for us to walk in as well. But we have to choose this way. When we choose the way through the death of His son Jesus Christ we are expressing the highest form of thankfulness for His ‘unspeakable gift’.
AV Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
AV Colossians 1:16: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:”
AV Romans 1:20: “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”
AV 2 Corinthians 9:15: “Thanks [be] unto God for his unspeakable gift.”
AV Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”