Easy come-easy go, not so easy. Oh sure, we hear the cute cliché frequently, but just because you hear something does not mean it is true. We hear a lot of things with an ongoing repetitiveness and those “things” can erode or good intentions and lead us to believe that because we hear it, that settles it.
Mark 4:24 (NKJV) Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
Remember the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen? It is a story about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, no one dares to say that he doesn't see any suit of clothes until a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"
The truth is most things don’t come easy and as far as easy go -they don't go easily either? Ask any mother how easy the weight loss goes after only nine months of pregnancy. Ask a runner how easy it is to get back in shape after only six weeks off for an injury? Are you getting the point? Eat badly for a week and it will take you 4 or 5 weeks maybe longer to curb that appetite and reset that thermostat and loose those unwanted pounds.
Any lifelong goal will take lifelong commitment. Anything you were is always willing to take you back but it usually takes you back with vengeance. Another way I say this is, “Sin always demands an increase.” A life of sin may come easier than a life of righteousness, but that lifestyle and the wages of such do not “go easy”, and the ramifications usually last a lifetime.
Easy come easy go? I don’t think so.
Mark 4:24 (NKJV) Then He said to them, “Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
Remember the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen? It is a story about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, no one dares to say that he doesn't see any suit of clothes until a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"
The truth is most things don’t come easy and as far as easy go -they don't go easily either? Ask any mother how easy the weight loss goes after only nine months of pregnancy. Ask a runner how easy it is to get back in shape after only six weeks off for an injury? Are you getting the point? Eat badly for a week and it will take you 4 or 5 weeks maybe longer to curb that appetite and reset that thermostat and loose those unwanted pounds.
Any lifelong goal will take lifelong commitment. Anything you were is always willing to take you back but it usually takes you back with vengeance. Another way I say this is, “Sin always demands an increase.” A life of sin may come easier than a life of righteousness, but that lifestyle and the wages of such do not “go easy”, and the ramifications usually last a lifetime.
Easy come easy go? I don’t think so.
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