All Consuming Interest - Thursday Devotionals

We are all children of our times.

One of the pervasive marks of our times is emotional fragility.

We are easily hurt.

We pout and mope easily.

We break easily.

Our marriages break easily.

Our faith breaks easily.

Our happiness breaks easily.

And our commitment to the church breaks easily.

We are easily disheartened, and it seems we have little capacity for surviving and thriving in the face of criticism and opposition.

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials.”

James 1:3

What will be the character traits of the twenty first century westerners, Europeans and Americans alike, when the historians will list them?

Will commitment, constancy, tenacity, endurance, patience, resolve and perseverance enter the list?

Or will the list begin with an all-consuming interest in self-esteem?

And be followed by the subheadings of self-assertiveness, and self-enhancement, and self-realization?

How much of our lives truly concentrate on Christ and how much of it is given to ourselves?

We need help here!

When we are surrounded by a society of emotionally fragile quitters, and when we see a good bit of this ethos in ourselves, what should we do?

One answer is to spend time with people – whether dead or alive – whose lives prove there is another way to live.

“Be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”

Hebrews 6:12

This post is part of Thursday Devotionals series. Right now it is going through the life, work and faith of Charles Simeon.

Would you like to read the first part, Are You Ready To Suffer For Christ?

You might also enjoy the second part of the series, Growing Downward.

I also recommend the thrird part for the children of this generation called, All Consuming Interest.

The fourth part is called, Peace Flowed In Rich Abundance.

If you have not yet read the fifth part , This Sweet Hope.

Take some time to read the sixth part also, Blessed Are The Peacemakers.

Hope you will enjoy reading the seventh part, A Double Blessing To Your Ministry.

Are you willing for, A Little Suffering For Christ's Sake.