Jack County Cowboy Church

When things are not used they often become harder to use than when they were freshly in use. I know that when I review my Scripture memory every day, those verses are on the tip of my tongue whenever I need them. But when I am not reviewing every day I find that they are less and less available to me. This is true also of our spiritual walk with Christ. When we begin to trust ourselves, we trust Christ less. When we have days off from reading Scripture, it is harder to begin to read Scripture again. When we take off from praying it is harder for us to begin again to pray. These disciplines must be exercised and used or they also become rusty. Just like my muscles, which have developed weakness with age, we can develop spiritual habits that put us on a course that leads to uselessness. However, my muscles can be reactivated, and our spiritual life can also become active again. When we become accustomed to a lively spiritual life and while the newness might disappear, it is replaced with the very thing we were seeking when we sought the Lord, and that is consistency in our walk with Christ.