Amelia Student Ministries - Amelia Church of Christ

Ok, so next week for me is finals week. Things have been super chaotic, which is the big reason I haven’t been doing as many Random Thoughts of late.  However, I am really coming to see that there is something that happens during this week that I can’t necessarily explain. Apathy. I can’t really explain this phenomena.  I mean I would think that I would be super motivated to do my work. I mean, after all, once I am done with this I am home free and can move onto summer. However, I find myself 2 paragraphs shy of a paper, and I can’t even motivate myself to do it. It will take me 30 minutes if I would just get on the ball, but I don’t want to do it. Then I have three more short papers which won’t be difficult either, yet I have been putting them off for quite some time also.  Surely some of you have felt the same way, right?

Well, I can’t say this for all of you, but sometimes I tend to do the same thing in my walk with Christ.  I will be going through life and doing my work and getting things done for Him. You know, stuff like reading my Bible, prayer, talking to others about Christ, and inviting people to church.  then all of a sudden, I get this unexplained apathy, where I just stop.  I mean you would think that I would be motivated because I am seeing all the good that is coming out of what I am doing. I think this is part of why Paul wrote to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 9:24 “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.”  Perseverance is not something that is easy. It is easy to not care and to just fall into apathy, but we need to run the race in a way to win. When a runner is running, they don’t keep stopping, but they run continually. Continually follow Christ, and chase after the things that He would want in our lives.  That is my challenge for you all today.