This is not to be a long post, but a brief reflection. We are lazy people. I am a lazy person. And my heart desires to be happy. By grace, God has shown me that He is the only place where true happiness is found, and so I wish most to pursue Him. But the pursuit is not so easy. Even though I know and have felt that God is the best source of happiness, I am too lazy to get after it. I too often believe the lie that reading my Bible "after this" and praying "tonight" will satisfy me more than dropping my current agenda and doing them now, when in reality a delay means not doing either at all. My sin keeps from pursuing the One I love with all my might. It keeps me from the Source of happiness.
So I fight. I fight my sin and struggle to hold fast to my faith in God's promises that He is worth everything, and that nothing can satisfy like Him, and that in His right hand are pleasures forevermore. I fight to make myself pursue my love. This is the good fight, the fight of faith, at which I am no good. Grace is the only strength to make it work. So I pray for grace. I pray for the faith to believe what God says about being satisfied in Him. I pray that my laziness will fall before love. I pray that the Holy Spirit will do these same things also in all of you, and I implore that you pray these things for me. We are fellow soldiers fighting to be happy in our Savior. Let us march.