Are you Numb

It is that time of the year. The one where it is cold outside and everyone bundles up to stay warm. Well have you ever stood outside in the cold? At first it almost burns or hurts. Your fingers and whole body eventually go numb. This numb feeling is something I would like to focus on.

Do we sometimes enter in Christianity with a desire or burning to live for Christ, but over time it starts to fizzle or just to become monotonous. Sometime I feel numb to life, and to God. I feel I’m doing ok, or I can just get by this week. But that is not what he wants; he wants all of you, focused and determined.

In my bible class we are reading a book and one small section of the chapter is about fasting and how it was emphasized by the bible and even the early Christians, but here in the western culture we are surrounded with food and a desire to stay filled that few ever experience this, I know I haven’t.

We also need to empty our minds and fill not at first with anything, but slowly let Christ envelop our minds and for us to dwell on him.


17After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? 19For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")

20He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' 21For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' "

Mark 17:17-23 NIV


Another thing I have noticed is the increase of activities on Sunday or the Sabbath, day of rest, for Christians. God emphasized in the beginning that he rested on the 7th day. And I feel if we follow this example and slowed our Sundays down and took time to really relax and even renew our minds and focus on him we may live a healthier more Christ focused life. And I know I fall into this rut of having schoolwork I have to finish on Sunday or things I have to get done, because I just don’t have time to do everything on Friday and Saturday.

But I feel a need that Christians need to learn to focus. We need to fight the numb feeling the one of over-saturation or apathy the world is flooding at us. We need to rest, relax maybe fasting and get our minds reset to face the battle we are fighting.

So I am going to challenge myself and you if you wish to revive your mind refresh and renew and refill it with Christ and a new focus for your life. Hopefully this will become a regular or frequent ritual for your life as I hope to do in mine. But perhaps skip one meal and instead focus on Christ; empty your mind use emotions, be passionate. Do what it takes to get that numb feeling in the open and then throw it aside. If you have to weep and wail or even tear your clothes whatever it takes to clear and reset your mind for your true purpose.

So Take a moment and stop and smell the roses, look at what God has done for you.

If you have to stand in the cold air feel the numbness that your soul may be experiencing, Do IT!

Do you have the desire?
The passion you once had?
Or do you need a Vacation?

Are You Numb?