Back to Basics

Recently, I've been trying to treat the symptoms of a starved spiritual life. I see apathy and covetousness and laziness and impatience and doubtfulness and irresponsibility bubbling up in my character. My knee-jerk reaction is to respond to every symptom with a 5-step plan towards conquering the symptom. Somehow, the harder I try, the worse it gets. Inevitably, I get overwhelmed and discouraged.

Perhaps I've been pulling the trigger before loading the bullet.

One thing I know for sure is that my scriptural intake has reduced in the last several weeks. I'm drying up (spiritually speaking) and the symptoms are getting worse. I've been supplementing my relationship with God with other things. It's time to get back to the basics.

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
(2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV)

"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."
(James 1:22-25 ESV)

Are you getting starved? Is it time to get back to the basics? Start by drinking from the living water of the God's word.