1/27/11
“Easing into my day” is right up there with one of my top favorite things. An alarm is an antithesis of ease, especially one that goes off at 4:24. As for most working women who set an alarm 5-6 days a week, ease seems to be a foreign term. Obviously I’m looking for ease in all the wrong places. So why do I keep seeking it? Should I even be looking? Ease, to me, is lack of stress or frustration----things falling into place according to my schedule. Ease is CONVENIENCE in all caps!
According to my Bible marginalia, Schaeffer (probably Francis) said, and I paraphrase, “the 2 stumbling blocks in the western world to living a Christian life were that Americans had no higher philosophy of life than-- 1) the pursuit of ease, that brings personal peace, and 2) affluence.” Whoa, that’s pretty condemning. I don’t think of my self as one who seeks affluence but I have definitely spent a good bit of time and energy rearranging my life to accommodate ease whenever possible.
Do I even want a “religion of convenience?” I don’t. Yet sometimes my very actions belie this. Certainly God’s word has some stern admonitions for pursuit of ease and affluence. Just take a look at two facets of the life of the wicked as recorded in Psalm 73:12. Behold, these are the wicked; And always at ease, they have increased in wealth. (NASB)
I think I’ll ease on down the road to ponder this awhile.
"Only in acceptance lies peace." Elisabeth Elliott, (my NIV marginalia)
