A PROMINENT PREACHER has pointed out that we human beings tend to start each endeavor with a bang but lose our enthusiasm when the “new” wears off. He calls the point when the “new” wears off the "tedium."
Many marriages fail because husband and wife cannot weather the "tedium" of making a living and providing for a family.
The movies, short stories, novels, radio and television all tend to leave the impression that marriage is one long uninterrupted honeymoon. The truth is that true love and successful marriage are achieved by facing life's "tedium" together and working out life's problems as a team.
Our spiritual lives are the same. Christian living does not consist of constant emotional blessing. If we lived at such a height all the time, we would become insane. Besides, we have not been saved simply to shout; we have been saved to serve, to solve the world's problems in Christ's way.
Our church life is like that, too. At first it may appear that we shall be "carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease," but then as we know the church better we become aware of problems that need to be solved. We did not become church members for a free ride, but rather that we might throw our weight on the side of right, no matter how thick the "tedium" might become.
-C. Russell Bremer
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