Do you ever get the feeling that life is just a routine that you almost have to suffer through day in and day out? From a basic perspective, your daily life is little different from the lives of those around you: you wake up, maybe eat breakfast, take your shower and make yourself presentable (or at least bearable), off to work, try to eat lunch, more work, eat supper (because you have to eat at least one meal each day), try to spend time with the family/spouse/significant other, or maybe be involved in some kind of ministry, watch 24 or NCIS or Lost, and then head for bed, only to wake up the next morning and do it all over again.
After a while – be it weeks, months, or years – you start to feel like your routine is all there is. It isn’t that you don’t like your job, or your family is terrible, or church isn’t nice; the problem is that it seems empty, pointless, just part of the here and now. But life can – and should – be so much more.
Of course, we say that all the time, don’t we? But who is really experiencing it? How can everything we do in life, be it work or ministry or love, have eternal consequence when we have a hard time believing that these things make a difference in the present?
Chris MacKinnon 