Vital Fervency

No one has to tell birds to get on the ball and begin migrating.  No one needs to inform ants that they need to gather a harvest while it is available.  Nor does anyone have to tell puppies to get off the couch and hop to being cute and fun.  God’s creation just does what it’s created to do because God equipped it with vibrant life and DNA codes that dictate action and adventure.

Being a sloth spiritually is very easy to slip into. 

When I was a teen, I could tell when I began to migrate to spiritual dryness by a pretty strange means. I’d begin to read the cereal boxes as I ate breakfast instead of reading my Bible in the morning. 

Perhaps a similar situation is happening now-a-days when we look at our phones instead of spending time with the Lord and the Bible each day. When we do this, this could be a sign that we are drifting toward–or already residing in –dryness. 

A fun and stirring verse about this and all matters of the Christian life is in Proverbs 6:6-8, “Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief, officer or ruler, prepares its food in the summer and gathers its provision in the harvest.”  

We see this with the busy ants. No one tell them a thing, but the whole bunch of them are busy at it all the time. There are no slackers. 

God wants us to be diligent like the ant.  He wants us to be fervent every day about His business.

Every day it helps me to have two goals. One is to try hard to be better at loving and praying for all those in my “sphere”. Another is to seek to do little bit toward concrete goals of things that I know will bless others that are in God’s path for me. Doing these things gives me peace and really sweet-to-the-heart purpose. 

If I slack, deadness hits. I do best when trying to be better at loving–despite lots of failures– is ever-present in my focus. It also leads to some really sweet victories that I greatly rejoice in. We were created to be connectedly profoundly to many and we were meant to be daily about His business in seeking His blessing for these. 

“Keep fervent in your love” is something I think has enormous meaning that I’m  understanding more deeply. I think it means being joyfully fervent every moment we live.

“Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.” - 1 Peter 4:8