Currently Listening The Garden --Left Behind-- see related

There are times when I care and times when I don't.  Unfortunately, more often than not, the times I don't care outnumber the former.  Why?  Is there a reason for this complete lack of care and concern?  In all areas from worship to work to meditation to other people to life in general, our lives take on a drudgery that they were never meant to sustain.

It seems that we find ourselves living in monotony and we are okay with it.  Well, maybe we are not okay with it, but we definitely are not doing anything about it.  We esteem lust above love.  Selfishness above selflessness.  Pride before humility.  The list goes on and on ad infinitum.  Something within us must begin to urge us to do something.  To compel us.

In II Corinthians 5:14-15, Paul writes, "For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised."

Compel: to exert a strong, irresistible force on.  There should be some force that comes from within us that is constantly urging us forward and away from the muckraking.  There should be some type of urgency within us that directs us to further the cause of Christ.  Life should be much more than the state in which we currently live.  And most certainly, Christianity should be so much much more that what we have.

Let Thy love draw me nearer to Thyself.Wean
me from sin, mortify me to this world, and make
me ready for my departure hence. Secure me by
Thy grace as I sail across this stormy sea (from The Valley of Vision).