God Kicks

I, like many others, get on "God kicks" every once in a while. When God kicks occur I want to pray constantly, read every book in the Bible, share with EVERYONE where I'm at, listen to uplifting music 24/7, and on top of all of that listen to 50 different sermons in the same week. Then a week later they are over. God kick. Get it? (Yes, that's a bit extreme but you get what I'm saying).

God kicks bother me. Mainly because they make me feel inadequate in my day-to-day life (especially when I feel that I'm doing my very best to live a life that follows Christ).

Am I really not living as faithfully as I should be? Am I not as close to God as I should be? Am I not living a life that God would be proud of?

Perhaps this is true to a certain extent but I don't think that this is how we are supposed to feel.

Don't get me wrong. I do think that God finds glory when we have God kicks. But I think He also finds glory in our day-to-day lives when we choose to live a life similar to that of Christ whether we are mindfully aware of living this life or not.

Shouldn't we yearn to live a life where we aren't even consciously aware of the fact that we are living a life that Christ would? That's my hope.

I hope that I do something pleasing in the eyes of God without even thinking about it. I hope that I will listen to someone who needs to talk just because that's what is "normal" for me to do. I hope that I will pray for that stranger just because that's what is "normal" for me to do. I hope that I will refrain from gossiping just because that's what is "normal" for me to do.

So I won't get distressed when I don't have a God Kick anytime soon, because I don't see them as necessary.

Being a follower of Christ does not mean that I have to be God-happy all the time. Instead, I must have once made the decision to follow Christ and my day-to-day actions thereafter have reflected that decision.