As Prescribed
December 5, 2023
“Don’t drag your feet. Be like those who stay the course with committed faith and then get everything promised to them” (Hebrews 6:12)
Eventually you just know!
There is full clarity on what to do next. Yet we hesitate, we procrastinate, we drag our feet.
We know we need to move. We know it’s time to move. We just don’t want to move.
It doesn’t matter where you are in your journey or how many moves you’ve already made.
The next move, which is always the best move, is hard to make.
An analogy to this would be the toddler that has been prescribed a medication that needs to be administered over a series of doses/days.
Most children, despite desperately wanting to feel better, are not fans of this type of prescribed plan.
Each day brings with it anxiety around the process of receiving their daily dose.
When the moment arises the kid’s anxiety becomes down right panic looking for any means necessary to avoid having to go through with it. These fights typically escalate to the point of exhaustion for everyone involved.
Eventually it happens. The dose is delivered, and at that point the revelation is always, “that wasn’t too bad!”
Yet, the next day they’re back to square one and in most cases they’re better equipped to resist having learned from the prior day's experience.
They make their path to improvement way harder than it needs to be.
It seems ridiculous until we take a moment to realize this is exactly what we’re doing in our lives.
Meeting each new dose we’ve been prescribed with a little more anxiety and resistance.
We do this by declaring we’re good, that we’re all better! After just the first couple doses.
Deep down we know that we know that’s not true. We just don’t want to take our medicine.
The prescription is the promise, thus the promise comes when we live as prescribed.
The sooner you embrace that the sooner you’ll appreciate that life doesn’t have to be this hard.