We easily suffer from a kind of spiritual lethargy. We either become apathetic, jaded or just plain too tired. And consequently we find ourelves in two minds. We keep one eye on God and with the other, we scout the landscape for something else more that get the old adrenalin flowing. It is easy to lose the initial flush of love we had when we first came to Christ. Now it is easy to drift into half-heartedness.

I believe a lot of it has to do with losing the centre. When people are not conscious that they have a centre, from which their lives pulsate and radiate, then everything  else they do easily becomes pointless and purposeless.

There is, deep within each one of our hearts, a quiet place. Call it the temple of God,  call it a holy shrine, or what you will, it is the dwelling place of God within you; the altar where we’re supposed to meet with God each day. I’ve taken an inventory in my own personal life and I have discovered that something invariably happens when I fail to retreat into that shrine, where Christ is. When this happens, I almost always ended up living out-side in, instead of inside-out. I react, when I should initiate. I whine when I should be contented.

In the early days of artic exploration, explorers had a way to keep from becoming lost in a snow storm. If a companion went missing, there was the danger of covering the same ground over in the search because every place in the terrain looks the same – just a vast expanse of white! So as not to fall into that error, they would drive a stake into the snow tie a long rope to the stake and then move out in concentric circles until the missing person was found.

In the same way, in our modern-day confusion, we need to keep our soul ‘staked’ in God; to look on Him as the centre point of our spiritual vision. If all our activities radiate from this centre, we will begin to be less restless.