Heroes

By nature we are spiritually lazy. People want to appear nice. If they aspire to be a hero, they will comfort others by saying everything is all right. Spiritual laziness does not want to go through the foot-work of being a real hero and taking the steps to make things right.

The lazy hero will not be on his knees much, nor increase his knowledge and skill level. He will selectively ignore efforts at things he has no interest in and call them unimportant. He will not like those who do these things as the efforts of a true hero will make him look like he is standing still.

As willing as we are to hang in there with Jesus, our fleshly nature is weaker than the size of most problems He is working to solve. Willingness to have things go well will not make it so, anymore than willingness to stay up and pray with Jesus will keep us from spiritual slumber. The dullness that enters our souls is merely a companion of those things that seem unimportant to us.

As spiritual beings we need constant refreshing in the Holy Spirit. By practice, those things we prefer will give way to those things on God’s mind. By practicing the setting aside of our worldly affections and preferences we are transformed in both thought and obedient action. This refreshing of our mind will cause a readiness for the acts of God to move through us. These are the heroes God is making today.