Sometimes we might be weary
I don’t know about anyone else b,ut sometimes I get tired of doing the right thing. I suspect other people might feel this sort of thing too. It isn’t that I want to do bad things, but it seems so much work to do the good thing, the right thing. It was these thoughts that led to this week’s sermon.
In Galatians, Paul says, “So let us not grow weary in doing what is right.” (Gal 6:9a NRSV) The Holy Spirit led me to consider why we might become weary in doing the right thing. My thoughts went, not back to what I’d been taught about from this passage, but rather to where does weariness come from? Or to put it another way, Why would I become tired of doing the right thing? What I took from what I was taught was that if I wasn’t careful (no guidance on how to be careful) I would stop wanting to do good and perforce start wanting to do bad.
The sermon doesn’t go anywhere near there but rather asks us if we are tired of doing good because we are tired. The issue isn’t “just” being tired of doing good, it is being tired of doing at all. It is in those times I can be hardest on myself for not doing good as I did . . . in some especially do-gooding time. Rather than being hard on ourselves when we find it hard to do good because we are so tired, we should take a nap.
As always, let me know what you think of the sermon as you are inclined and able.
Blessings,
