I’ve been doing but it’s never enough
I’ve done all I can, still it’s never enough
And it all says to my heart is I’m not enough
Don’t know how else to meet up and keep up
So I went the only way left, down and out …
Until wisdom taught me the unforgettable:
We can only do so much for so long
But like it or not, we’re never tired of being
Being is nature, being nurtures but doing tires
We are called to be all we can become
When we live from the place of our being
We blossom while doers are wearing out.

While I was out speaking on the subject of our hearts and our actions, God highlighted something that explained why so many are growing so weary in the faith. Christianity has become a list of ‘To-dos,’ a bundle of activities to keep up with. In our bid to juggle all that and meet up with our acceptable criteria for Christianity, we flounder and wonder about our lists. The weariness of our endless and unrewarding activities makes us question the profitability of the faith. Unknown to us, it is not the faith that is under scrutiny here but our definition of it, our personal adaptations and executions of what Christianity means to us, which eventually goes back to foundations.

Foundations make and mar a building. If the foundation is wrong, you can set structures of silver and gold and both are bound to crumble to the forces of nature. But if the foundation is solid, build on. Forces of nature may harm the structure, which can always be repaired and upgraded, but the foundation remains sure, firm and stable. When we as humans fail, the nature of God which we inherit by faith is not in question. If we truly bear that nature of God and if the right foundation has been set upon this inherited nature of godliness, Christianity will not be a religion whose principles we adopt. You realize that it is a nature, a state of being, a lifestyle, fashioned after God. That is the nature God is grooming through our living and suffering, to transform us from who we used to be to who we are meant to be: like Him.

When we live who we are, we may get disappointed but we are never tired. We may get discouraged but we are never wearied of being. It is a state. What wearies and wears us out is the acts: trying to do and acting what we are not. God has not called us to do but to be: to be like Him. To become light and salt and Christ to the world not act like those. But many who don’t understand think Christianity is about something you do, or actions and activities you add to who you become in Christ – a faulty foundation behind eventual wearing out and falling off.

Too many people have worked too hard to be Christians. They have suffered too much trying to do Christian things the Christian way. Whoever gets tired of being human they now want to become a dog? Human is our ‘being’ just like Christianity is our ‘being.’ It is not an act but living out the nature of God in us. When you are being, situations can lead to discouragements and frustrations but that doesn’t question or change your being. It is our expression of our being that we keep working on in hope of enduring changes.

We live in times that are so focused on ‘do right’ we forget that the only sustainable way to accomplishing that is when it flows from the inside, when it is natural instead of forced, when our being agrees with our doing. Maybe it’s time to take a break from all these back-breaking activities and focus on learning to be, and practicing to come into the fullness of who God has called us to be for then and only then can we do all we can and not be worn despite what works or not. Then and only then can we continue to be irrespective of how it all starts and ends. May God help us. Amen.

Blessings
Glory!