Reformers and Puritans

Laziness and Laxity Never Cured by Immobility

Josh July 17th, 2006

“There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work”

-C.H. Spurgeon

Ain’t that the truth? Spiritually, mentally, and physically this always rings true. Don’t you find that when you are not regularly exercising this or that, you find yourself less apt or motivated to do so? I must confess that I’ve been spiritually (biblically) lax in these passing weeks. Beginning in May I was doing “real well” but within in the last few weeks I have flopped on my face! Sure, I can blame it on this or that, but is there ever really a valid excuse to have not been in prayer and meditation upon the work, word, and person of Jesus Christ, the Lord Who has purchased me with His blood? Certainly Not!

So, as I have begun fresh and anew in my physical work out, I pray for a renewed fervency in my spiritual disciplines.

Lord, I confess my spiritual laxity and sinfulness to you. Without the symbiotic relationship between prayer & the word and mortification of sin I have allowed myself to come upon a sad state. Forgive my wretchedness. Help me to hate my complaceny and love for sin.

Anyway, just thought I’d confess my absolute human fallenness and that the things of which Dr. Owen speaks, particularly that we will never be free of indwelling sin “whilst” in this life, are very much relevant and applicable in the lives of all believers. I have been focused a bit too much on selling houses, moving places, paying bills, and various forms of entertainment at the expense of delving into, loving, knowing, and obeying the Word of God. I fear I have also caused my best Christian friends distraction in doing the same. Not that they haven’t also been immersed in the Word of God, but I fear I have distracted them from always thinking of the praiseworth, excellent things upon which Paul admonishes us to think. Forgive me, Friends, if I am guilty of such terrible things.