Lifeway Church

I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little frustrated with doing things the easy way.  Why?  The easy way is not always the best way or the right way.  It's not easy to make the right decisions.  It's not easy to hold yourself accountable.  It's not easy to have high expectations.  It's not easy to stay committed.  It's not easy to keep your word.  It's not easy to love those who've offended you.  It's not easy to hold on to what is true and right.  It's not easy forgive.  It's not easy.  Many times when it comes to situations we may be facing in our lives we look for the easy way to deal with them.  I'm not opposed to easy when it get's the job done right, but most of the time the easy way doesn't solve our problems or deal with the issues. The easy way basically just sweeps things under the rug.  Doing things the easy way is really just putting off the inevitable.  When people are more about doing things the easy way, it says that they're not really interested in doing things the right way.  Doing things the easy way can affect our leadership whether it's in our work, church or home.  I'm learning that being a leader to my kids means that I will have to ask them hard questions sometimes.  It's easy to make excuses for them and probably less time consuming.  It easy to ignore the problems that you may face in your marriage and just hope that they will work itself out.   It's hard to make the time to actually have a dialogue with your spouse and really get to the issues that are affecting your marriage.  It's easy to blame your co-worker for low productivity, but it's hard to ask yourself what you could have done to help.  You see, we are never going to change our world as Christians if we're looking for the easy way.  We've got to be able to ask the hard questions and then tackle the solutions.  It would have been easy for Jesus to blame us for the cross.  It wasn't easy for Him to take our cross, but He did and He showed His love for us through the cross.