Legalism Revisited

It can be pretty exhausting and frustrating to try to live a moral life.  Frustration and sometimes apathy can grow in your heart if you let it. Living a life of faith can consume you and saddle you with obligation and responsibility.  Sometimes with all the time commitments and pressures of life, you may not know exactly where you are spiritually

You find yourself going through the motions, checking off those items that tend to make up a spiritual to do list, and then what? You still feel empty; that feeling of there's got to be more to this life.

My wife once said I didn't care about her spirituality, and frankly, at the time I didn't, why should I?  We both went to church that had a 2 hour morning service, a 2 hour evening service with afterglow time, Wednesday Bible study, small group, listened to Christian radio for the commute both ways, had Christian music playing at home (maybe too loud) all the time.  Additionally she was doing  a thing called BSF, I was doing a weekly mentoring, we both had daily quiet time, and on and on it went.  We're talking 30 hours a week for Jesus! We must have been spiritual giants right?

Nope! Mostly legalism and head knowledge.

Mary and Martha revisited