Kill the back-stepping...

Finally!!!.... I been yearning to talk, I been trying to find a time where I could sit before my laptop and begin the series of blog posts I will write with it; say all that I have to say, because there's a lot that needs to be said. I have to talk about the next thing that's on my mind right now, the most pressing issue that I believe the Christian community, at least in my immediate surroundings is experiencing. I've decided to call it back-stepping.

So what’s back-stepping. Literally stepping back. It’s that two steps we take backwards after we have made one move forward in royal stepz. It's that Monday and Tuesday where you can't squeeze in your quiet time after that very fulfilling and refreshing message from the ODB on Sunday. It's those 30 minutes of prayer that you can’t seem to find the time to engage in after the 45 minutes prayer session you had with some tight friend yesterday. It’s that feeling that makes you almost incapable of telling the next person "God loves you," even when you know the Lord says you should... I don't know if I'm saying this like I should, but I know somebody reading this understands me. They know what it’s like to have fallen behind because they stepped back too many times.

How do we kill the Back-stepping? I seriously have no clue. Don’t ask a fisherman to teach you how to stop catching fish. Or maybe you should, let him tell you everything he wouldn’t do to catch fish. But that’s not the point here. I’m just going to say the things that pop into my head when I think about how back-stepping is affecting me.

Busy:  Being Under Satan's Yoke. This may begin to be sounding cliché but it is in fact the truest definition I’ve heard yet. As a major cause of back-stepping, being too busy for God tells us that we’ve set our priorities wrong. I mean the best and most potentially productive times in our days should be what we reserve for God. We should let nothing get in the way of the time that you set aside for him, and make it a point to leave that time wholly his.

The bible lets us know that if we love the Lord, we will obey his commands. His commands are clear: tells us the things to do all the time. Now if I can't pray continually, or am too busy to keep the Spirit's fire burning always, am I still in love with God? Does God still count me as Son. See, obeying God should be natural to me as a prince of the King, it should be as natural as a human needing water or a snail growing a shell... think defying the fundamental laws of Physics or disproving the existence of air, that's how great the contradiction is in back-stepping.That's how great the contradiction is in loving the Lord, and finding it hard to operate his will your system. 

I hope I'm speaking to the right people. I'm not alone; I know there others like me out there, and today I just need us to together find a way to stop retracing our steps; stop being a friction to ourselves. I need to know you're here because I know that when a bunch of back-steppers run as a team, the back-stepping falls to an all time low. The problem only returns when we go solo for a bit, and that's when we tend to turn. There's no way anyone can force us to fall on your knees in our personal spaces to pray, but imagine how much easier it would be if we would encourage everyone everyday, "Pray before you sleep", "Don't forget to read your bible." Imagine how much easier it would get if when we stood by our bedsides to pray, we had had tons of group prayer time. Imagine how simple it would be for us to start reading the Bible with understanding if our days discussions had been on Romans 12:1.

I could find the perfect sermon, one that would tell us all the things we need to do to ensure that we  not slacking behind in Spirituality, but I think the only way to stay on top is to keep your mind on the top. Focus on God. Let your mind be on him, how you can make your next step his, how what you do next will be dedicated to him. Focus on heavenly things and the things the spirit desires for you. Then transform your agenda to a heavenly one. Don't think of all the troubles you have to deal with, think on the real reasons your around, critically evaluate everything and make sure that it doesn't breech your heavenly agenda.

I can't assure you that I'm right. What I say in my blogs is almost always just what I think will work. I cant guarantee it. But I can say that if we all said what we thought we could do to keep the directions of our footprints matching heavenly ones, I'm sure we'd find the right way somewhere in there. And though I give this all the time, the people I've addressed need it the most so:

Until next time... I leave you grace to walk in royal stepz...