Making it Seamless

Making it Seamless


From the point when we wake up each morning to the point when we go to bed, we carry out all sorts of little routines seamlessly and these things are called our daily routine. 


A routine is a sequence of actions followed regularly and everyone has them.


Everyone has their own daily routine but we don't think of them as routines. We have done those things everyday for decades so we do them without thinking. Physical daily routines involve getting up in the morning, brushing your teeth, taking a shower, fixing your hair, dressing up and putting on some makeup (if you are a lady). The routine continues as you go to work, have your meals, make calls, go online (sometimes at around the same time daily), and at the end of the day, go home in your car or on public transport. 


When you get home, you may unwind, spend time with your family, start dinner, then perhaps watch TV and finally go to bed. There are probably other things you do in your daily routine and everyone has a different set of things that make up their daily routines. However no matter how many things you do in your daily routine YOU NEVER THINK ABOUT IT. You have done all those things for so long that you do most of them without thinking. Why? All those things are a series of routines that you do everyday without giving them much thought. 


Once you begin to think about these routines as different individual things however, there is a problem.


However, for our spiritual lives as Christians, we may feel we have a series of spiritual daily routines. It can feel like you are always doing things. You have to pray, you have to read your Bible, you have to meditate on the Word, declare and confess the Word and then praise God. Then you have to make sure to walk in love and not allow unforgiveness and strife. It can feel like your life as a Christian is a series of routines but once you begin to feel this way, something is wrong. 


If this is the case with you, you have a problem. Your life as a Christian should not feel like a routine. Afterall you don’t complain about your daily routines; you just do it. You don't complain that when you wake up, you have to brush your teeth and take a shower before going to work. You don't complain. You just do those things without thinking. 


Your Christian walk is born out of a relationship with God, so once it becomes a routine there is a problem. 


Instead of focusing on the things you need to do as a good Christian, begin to focus on your relationship with God. Whenever I read James 1:23-24, I find it difficult to comprehend how a person could look at themselves in the mirror and then promptly forget what they look like. The mirror is the Word of God and you can only forget what the Word says you look like when you depart from that word 


[23] “For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; [24] For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like”.

‭James 1:23-24 AMPC‬


Your relationship is the key to making your routine seamless. So, just focus on your relationship with God this week and your routine will fall into place AND IT WILL NOT FEEL LIKE A ROUTINE. 


Sp flourish in God this week.

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