The other day the kids were watching the new karate kid. I was doing other things but kept catching snippets of dialogue which sent my brain on a jog. Mr. Miagi offers to help the kid learn to defend himself. He has the kid doing basic exercises (taking off his coat, putting it back on), lots and lots of repetition of these basic exercises. The kid agrees to do things Mr. Miagi’s way until he gets frustrated with the monotony and lack of fighting skills.
We live in a social media run society. Most of our interactions involve likes and how many likes a post gets. Everyone is important and thinks it’s all about them. We were told as kids that we can be anything we want.
How often has God asked us to do something simple? And we agree and even have a great attitude in the beginning. Then when we think we have done our time and our visions of grandeur are not being fulfilled...have we walked away? Have we said: I must have misheard? There has to be more than this.
Mr. Miagi comes in and shows the young grasshopper how to take his muscle memory actions and turn them into useful defense moves. There was a reason behind the routine, the monotony, the same thing over and over.
Are we so busy wishing we were on stage? Or writing a book? Or leading a conference? Or something else that seems earthly important and status changing? That we have totally missed the muscle memory exercises that are necessary for the calling and purpose that our obedience is going to walk us into?
Our spiritual life is much like a muscle and it must be used, flexed, stretched and challenged.
We live in a social media run society. Most of our interactions involve likes and how many likes a post gets. Everyone is important and thinks it’s all about them. We were told as kids that we can be anything we want.
How often has God asked us to do something simple? And we agree and even have a great attitude in the beginning. Then when we think we have done our time and our visions of grandeur are not being fulfilled...have we walked away? Have we said: I must have misheard? There has to be more than this.
Mr. Miagi comes in and shows the young grasshopper how to take his muscle memory actions and turn them into useful defense moves. There was a reason behind the routine, the monotony, the same thing over and over.
Are we so busy wishing we were on stage? Or writing a book? Or leading a conference? Or something else that seems earthly important and status changing? That we have totally missed the muscle memory exercises that are necessary for the calling and purpose that our obedience is going to walk us into?
Our spiritual life is much like a muscle and it must be used, flexed, stretched and challenged.
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