Everyone Is Lazy With God

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There is one specific aspect of our culture that’s keeping so many from God. Idleness and laziness with our lives and especially with our seeking Christ is keeping us from deepening our faith. We live in a world focused on comfort, but that comfort isn’t only hurting us mentally and physically, but it’s deeply hurting our walk with God.

There is both a physical element to laziness and a spiritual element. First with the physical element, if we don’t master ourselves and build discipline with our lives and our mind, it will be nearly impossible to have discipline with seeking God.

We should strive to master our physical bodies and our minds so it doesn’t control us. Doomscrolling, spending enormous amounts of time playing video games, and modern distractions are keeping us undisciplined and from intentionally seeking God.

There is also a spiritual laziness that infects many of us. How many of us put attention and effort into worldly things, but give minimal effort to the spiritual life? We follow workout routines, put effort into our jobs, focus on hobbies, but barely fit intentional seeking after God into our lives.

Seeking God and being a Christian is not passive. We must intentionally seek after God, struggle against our passions and temptations, and seek to be as Christ called us to be. If we truly loved the Lord God with all of our heart, soul, and mind, our lives would completely reflect that.

Just like when physically training when we don’t necessarily want to, but we do so because of the physical benefit, many times this is the same with the spiritual walk. Christ said in Matthew 16:24 “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Denying ourselves is not a loose statement and reveals that we are and should be denying our flesh and what we may want on a human level in the aim of seeking Christ.

More so than any other desire in our lives, we should fervently seek Christ. Matthew 11:12 states “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.” We must do violence against our passions, our temptations, and our inclination for spiritual laziness. We must intentionally and intensely seek God.

With this intentional seeking, there should be spiritual fruits. Much like visible results from a workout plan, there should be an inner transformation. There should be greater levels of humility, deeper repentance, and a great love for God and others. If this isn’t visible, then something is off.

We should seek after God through prayer, fasting, reading of scripture, almsgiving, being in Church, and living a life struggling against sin. Let us not be lazy or idle in our walk with God. Let us seek after Him with all of our being.

Glory to God.