A NEW ROUTINE

Today was my first day back to work after our trip to Wisconsin for Heidi's grandparents' 65th wedding anniversary.  So that meant that I had not been to work for nine days.  Nine days of not having to get up early to shower, get ready, drive to work, be on any kind of schedule is long enough to make it into a new routine.  Let me tell you how hard it was this morning to get up and get ready for work.


Having any kind of alarm was annoying, having to drag myself out of bed was a chore, getting ready was torture, and driving to work felt like the end of the world.  Now, before my boss reads this and fires me, let me say that I truly appreciate my job; I have a great time while I am there.  So why was it so difficult to go this morning?  I had a new routine.


And that got me thinking...it is the same way with our relationship with the Lord.  Take a couple of Sundays off from going to worship; neglect to read the Bible for a week; get out of your routine of spending time in prayer and you will find that it is difficult to get back to where you were.  You have a new routine.


So how do we get back?  We drudge through it.  Pick up that Bible, spend time in prayer, wake up for worship.  We just have to push through and eventually it will not feel like a task.  What starts out as a discipline will become a delight...and you will enjoy your new routine.