I got up this morning, made my weekly errand run . . . in the car, I put my ipod on shuffle and proceeded to skip every song that played for more than 2 seconds.
At the gym, I find myself yawning while on cardio machines. The songs on my workout playlist that used to make me run until my lungs lost elasticity now bore me.
I eat the same thing for breakfast most mornings . . . and end up hating it.
All of this has got me thinking . . . routines are not always such a good thing. Especially when we so easily grow tired of the same stuff over and over, get bored, ADD, etc.
I don't think that we were made for the ordinary, the predictable, the day-in, day-out. At least I don't want to live that way.
Maybe that's why throughout the Psalms we repeatedly see: "Sing to the Lord a new song," (33:3, 96:1, 98:1, 144:9, 149:1)
It's not sing, "the same old song", "the song you sang yesterday - the song we sing everyday", "that one song, you know, the one that goes like this," . . . it's a new song.
Maybe God is calling us to break free from the routines that bind and bore - not only in the way we worship Him, but in all areas of life.
Yet, we are so easily content to stay comfortable and live in our set ways . . . how can we overcome this?
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