Going thru the motions...

Haven't we all heard that saying before.

"I'm just going thru the motions"; or "I'm just going thru the emotions to make him/her happy"; or "this too shall pass".

I reckon more than anything we humanly go thru the motions all the time without realizing it. Maybe just "checking out" mentally in life or being passive is maybe the better way of putting it. 

I feel like as humans when hard circumstances or things we don't want to deal with or even things we can't control come our way we "uproot our mind or escape from reality" so we don't really have to handle it.

This is a terrible discipline and one I don't want to replicate.

I think essentially every time I do this the devil wins, so quickly in my life. I give up before I even realize that God has been with me the whole time, knew it was going to happen and purposed my steps thru the season already. 

In this song "I breathe you in, God" by Bethel Music there's one line in the bridge towards the end that says "when I don't understand, I will choose to love you God." 

Sometimes I'll be honest that's the only thing I can hold onto. Knowing that He has proven Himself to be good in my life and so very faithful. 

Let me encourage your heart and mine as seasons ebb and flow, oceans sweep and pull, changes are reality and control is not ours to hold. 

Proverbs 16:9 "The heart of a man plans His ways but the Lord establishes them."