If we want life to change; if we want things to get better for us; if we want to become better people; we need to get out of our RUT.
We need to Rewire our Underlying Thinking.
Christianity isn't a crutch. It's not an excuse. It's a complete (hopefully) life makeover.
The day we give our lives to Christ, our journey isn't over, it's just beginning. We fight a daily battle in the spiritual realm. We fight a daily battle with our flesh. We even fight a daily battle with our own will.
Where we could freely complain about, reject, and hate those who didn't fit our mold of 'acceptable', we are now called to love, accept, and do good for those same people.
Where we used to swear like sailors (I still do), we're expected to hate that type of language. The very things that sadden our Savior are to make our own skin crawl when we see/hear them happening around us, or, worse, when we say/do them ourselves.
Where we had no problems with retaliation, retribution, hoping for karma, and walking away from those who hurt us, angered us, or we just plain didn't like, we're called to turn the other cheek, and to not tire of doing good for these reviled people.
We need to be mindful that whatever we do to someone, we're also doing to the One who laid down His life for us.
Christianity doesn't sound so much like paradise anymore, does it? Not looking very much like 'the easy way out', huh?
I believe, though, that with daily... sometimes minute by minute changes in our lives; changes to our own ways, we can/will re-wire our brains and our hearts in such a way that doing the right thing will become second nature.
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