Dull & Indifferent
Please don’t read that title and think that I’m excited about being dull & indifferent. These are two negative adjectives that I want to certainly avoid. I don’t even want to be perceived as being dull and indifferent. I want to be preset and fully alive wherever I am. I want to the joy that I have in the Lord to show in my regular schedule and routines. I don’t believe that routine is a dull and indifferent activity. I suppose it could be. I try to set my routines to do activities that keep pumping life into my relatively old and tired body and rejuvenate my soul every day. If I will truly love others, my life will be unpredictable and anything but dull.
The writer of Hebrews gets right to the point. He doesn’t want to keep teaching basic truths about the Lord, He wants to go deeper into our faith so that we don’t get boring in our teaching. Check this out….
9 Dear friends, even though we are talking this way, we really don’t believe it applies to you. We are confident that you are meant for better things, things that come with salvation. 10 For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. 11 Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true.12 Then you will not become spiritually dull and indifferent. Instead, you will follow the example of those who are going to inherit God’s promises because of their faith and endurance. (Hebrews 6:9-12 NLT)
The Lord teaches us how to love others. He is our example to follow. He showed love and compassion to people who were not loved by the religious elite. He showed love to the outcast and dregs of the culture. The tax collectors in Jesus’ day where thought of as thugs and thieves. He prostitutes He reached out to, were hell-bound. He went to the places these people were. He called them out of their current life circumstances and showed them how valued they were to their Creator. He calls on us to do the same. It’s not easy to love people who are different than me or people I already like and know. The Hebrew writer makes it abundantly clear that I should love others and never stop loving others until the end of my life or the Lord returns. It would be wise for me to remember what it’s like to be lost. I’ve known the Lord so long, that it’s sometimes hard to understand people who don’t trust Him. If I want to be fully alive and anything but dull and indifferent, then I must love others as He loves them.
Pressing On!
Dwayne