What Are We Constant In?

 

 For many of life's endeavors, success is about consistency. Can you do something not just once but over and over again for a prolonged period of time? Everything, all the time without fail.

 How about success in pleasing the Lord? What would God’s will be that we do always without quitting in all circumstances?

 Well luckily for us we have that answer. In 1st Thessalonians 5:16-18, we read: “Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.”

   These might not be the things we would have come up with if left to our own thoughts. Yet here in black and white, the Bible says we are to always be rejoicing, never quitting on prayer, and to be thankful in all things.

   Are these things our constants? Or are we more consistent in negativity, complaining, and fault-finding? Do we have a steady joyous, thankfully appreciative to God attitude or a steady one of glumness, disappointment, and demanding?

   What we are is what we are not in the momentary but in consistency.

   Are we really day in and day out what God wants for us?