There are people who like routines and those who dislike routines. Routines can be seen positively as a consistent life or negatively as a life stuck in a rut. My regular rhythm of life was changed during our church family mission trip. Routine was exchanged for serving the ministry we came to serve. The project went well and the experience was very positive. Yet, it felt good to get back to my familiar rhythm, my routine. Why?
If you are a person who enjoys routine, I believe it is because you enjoy your life. Your time at work, time with the family, time volunteering, and time playing are all things that fill your joy tank. You like your rhythm because you like your life.
If you dislike routine or you feel your routine represents a rut, it may be because you are dissatisfied with some aspect of your life. If you dislike your job, the routine of work drains you. If your family life has many challenges, your routines around meals, conversation or anything around the home does not fill your joy tank. Perhaps your health prevents you from enjoying anything recreational and your free time feels like it is in a rut.
The Bible describes a regular rhythm of worship and sacrifice that the people of God should follow. There were daily, monthly and yearly routines of worship and celebration. Paul wrote in Romans that our very lives are to be offered as a sacrifice that lives for the LORD.
Romans 12:1-2 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
Perhaps it is time to re-establish a new routine, a new way of doing life.
If you are a person who enjoys routine, I believe it is because you enjoy your life. Your time at work, time with the family, time volunteering, and time playing are all things that fill your joy tank. You like your rhythm because you like your life.
If you dislike routine or you feel your routine represents a rut, it may be because you are dissatisfied with some aspect of your life. If you dislike your job, the routine of work drains you. If your family life has many challenges, your routines around meals, conversation or anything around the home does not fill your joy tank. Perhaps your health prevents you from enjoying anything recreational and your free time feels like it is in a rut.
The Bible describes a regular rhythm of worship and sacrifice that the people of God should follow. There were daily, monthly and yearly routines of worship and celebration. Paul wrote in Romans that our very lives are to be offered as a sacrifice that lives for the LORD.
Romans 12:1-2 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
Perhaps it is time to re-establish a new routine, a new way of doing life.
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